Issue 382 November 2015 50p Vote Chippy Race for ‘Best Market Town’ award

A chance to vote for Chipping Norton in a national competition for Great British High Streets. Banners are up round town – and the campaign, led by Experience Chipping Norton working with the Town – is in full swing. Judges are visiting now. The Town has beaten more than 200 other entrants. It’s down to the last three and a public vote closes on 13 November. You can vote every day at chippy2win.com with the whole family using their different email addresses! And on social media, please pass the word around using the hashtag #Chippy2Win. A win would share £80,000 prize money to help local business and gain lots of positive publicity. The award celebrates towns with forward-looking businesses working with the community, welcoming new businesses and visitors and helping people locally and elsewhere. Lots more on page 5. Future of NHS Beds In this issue A disappointing turnout in St Mary’s Church on 21 WWI special Remembrance October heard the County present options for Chippy’s Feature ~ update on Horsefair ‘Intermediate Care’ NHS beds – to be staffed by the care dangers ~ ACE Centre threats ~ home or be closed. The Mayor and the local Hospital Views wanted on skateboard Action Group say that we are losing ‘proper community park ~ Mysteries at the Rollright hospital beds’ and the consultation (closing on 8 Stones and all local news December) was badly publicised and is rushed and Plus all the Arts, Schools, inadequate. More local meetings are planned. See page 2. Sports, Clubs and Letters LOCAL NEWS

The future of our NHS Beds County present ‘consultation’ Quality issues and ‘flawed’ process Only a few dozen local people attended the key St Mary’s At the Church meeting Mayor Cllr Mike Tysoe, speaking also meeting about Chipping Norton’s NHS hospital beds. The for HAG, reinforced the view that the beds, although called formal consultation was organised by Intermediate, were originally promised Oxfordshire County Council, whose and specified as full ‘sub-acute’ meeting adverts were in the Banbury community hospital beds. But his Guardian and Oxford Times less than a week biggest concern was that OCC were earlier. The posters headed ‘Future of offering a fait accompli and that the Intermediate Care in North Oxfordshire’ consultation was rushed and flawed if a made no mention of ‘Chipping Norton’, decision were to be made before the ‘hospital’, ‘beds’ or even ‘NHS’. County results of a wider review of Officer John Jackson presented, backed by Community Hospitals (including Leader Ian Hudspeth and Cabinet Member Chipping Norton). Many contributions Judith Heathcoat. The senior NHS person in from the audience (including from two the room – David Smith, head of Significant signage? Above: Chipping Norton GPs and Revd James Kennedy, himself Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group, War Memorial Community Hospital, a former NHS doctor) said the was not on the panel and said nothing. Our Below: OSJCT Intermediate Care Unit current level of service, involving 14 ‘Intermediate Care’ beds are currently Oxford Health and GPs, provided a staffed by nurses from Oxford Health NHS high level of medical intervention and Trust. The beds are not technically in the care, with good outcomes. But, it ‘War Memorial Community Hospital’ but in appears, from sources quoted at the a specially equipped adjoining building meeting, this may be seen as ‘over the maintained by the Orders of St John Care top’ against the specification that Trust who run the Care Centre next door. OCC are prepared to pay for. A key The County say this combined arrangement issue will be how service quality is is ‘expensive and complex.’ monitored if a change is made. Cllr Hilary Biles, Chippy’s County Bed options: OSJCT or nothing Councillor, has focused on this issue for many years and was Intermediate Care services are designed to help people stay involved in all the original agreements. She accused the panel, at home rather than go into hospital or get back home quickly including fellow Cabinet Members, of ‘talking rubbish’ and of after a stay in an acute hospital. The County has now defined saying she was wrong. ‘bed-based’ Intermediate Care as ‘short term care delivered in care homes’ – although Dept of Health guidance says IC More local meetings covers a whole range of care, including in community There are two more immediate local Chipping Norton public hospitals, for different medical and rehabilitation needs. The meetings planned about local NHS services: County presented only two options: first have the 14 bed North Oxfordshire Health Forum On 10 November at service provided entirely by staff, including nurse cover, from 7.30pm in Chipping Norton School. The Forum was OSJCT – apparently not a ‘change of service’ in spite of established two years ago as a local public input to the new dropping the NHS nurses; second, provide more care at NHS Commissioning Group. This meeting will look at the home, close the unit and, if needed, use beds further afield. impact of population changes on the Health Service and Proposals could save £700,000 per year, when health and discuss local services. The Forum intends to submit a formal social care budgets are big issues. OCC say ‘other viable response to the consultation on the NHS beds issues. options or suggestions will be considered’. Responses online The Hospital Action Group – On the NHS beds issues, via www.oxfordshire.gov.uk or write to FREEPOST RTRX- HAG are organising their own meeting on Thursday 3 GJUL-HXHY, County Hall, OX1 1ND December 7pm in St Mary’s Church, to be publicised widely, and they will be polling 12,000 local homes with a survey. They Will our needs be met? are also threatening a judicial review of the process. Local Councillors, Oxfordshire Healt hwatch, the Chipping Norton Hospital Action Group and local people have several concerns. First, many say the service has been, or is being, Vegtotable Greengrocer downgraded from ‘sub-acute’ medically-led care of the kind 4C Hitchman Mews, Off West Street, provided previously here and in all Oxfordshire’s Community Chipping Norton Hospitals. HAG suggest OSJCT cannot provide that higher level 01608 238829 of service. Second, this could leave the north of the County with Local Greengrocer selling good tasty in-season no local community hospital beds, nor potentially enough intermediate care beds. Third, with wider uncertainty over fruit & vegetables and eggs from local suppliers resources Healthwatch say Chipping Norton should be included who support local farmers. in a wider review of community hospitals and intermediate care Log baskets, logs & kindling to ensure the locality is being treated fairly rather than being Orders for Christmas now being taken presented with this very narrow choice in this ‘consultation’.

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support as we can and have had a brilliant response from the ACE Centre: ‘Hands off!’ local community. Every person I speak to tells their own Chippy campaigners have joined stories of how staff and facilities have helped and supported the County-wide furore to object them in different stages of their children’s development. After to County Council proposals to our recent public meeting we have gained momentum for our save £8m by cutting children’s campaign and we know that our voices must be heard. I would centre services. They would close encourage anyone who wants to back the campaign to like seven Early Intervention Hubs and our Facebook page (Save the ACE Centre), write letters of replace 44 current centres (one is concern, sign petitions, spread the word and do anything they can to protect this vital centre in our wonderful Town.’ in Chippy’s ACE Centre) with eight centres only, in the big towns. They would Meetings about County cuts stop ‘universal services’ The County also needs to make another £50m savings over such as ‘stay and play’ and four years (above the £300m cuts already planned). They are open access youth holding public meetings on all of this as follows: 7-8.30pm 27 sessions, unless local Oct (County Hall), 2 Nov (Banbury Town Hall) and 5 Nov volunteers were found to (Wallingford). Register to attend via www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/ run them. The County talkingoxfordshire. Details are also available in the Library. have been accused of ‘savage and irresponsible Apple Day celebrations cuts’ ignoring long term effects on families, the NHS and public services. The County are conducting a two- month ‘consultation’ and protestors have been meeting across the County and in Chipping Norton. Two years ago similar threats saw Chippy protesters confront MP David Cameron in the Market Square – they could do so again. Chipping Norton District Councillor Laetisia Carter, who helped with the campaign two years ago, told the News , ‘Hands off! Every parent can need support making “universal” services essential. The ACE Centre is a lifeline for parents and carers. Here we can access childcare rated “outstanding” by Ofsted and get support from professionals on issues that can leave parents spiralling out of control, such as domestic There was plenty of fun, with violence, child/partner bereavement, postnatal depression, singing and some strange rituals – getting back to work, debt advice, etc.We all need to make and a good family turnout – at sure the County Councillors hear how essential the ACE Chippy’s Community Orchard on Children’s Centre is to our community here. We need to say Sunday 18 October. The central “enough” to cuts that discriminate against rural communities.’ point of the Day was to celebrate Parent Governor at the ACE Centre, Jodie Read, told the the apple crop and encourage next News , ‘The ACE Children’s Centre is such an important hub of year’s crop – by placing cider- support for our families and children. We are rallying as much soaked toast on an apple tree, singing a Wassailing song (words provided!) and making loud noises THE TOWN’S to keep the evil spirits away! Everyone joined in the fun. There were CHRISTMAS DANCE children’s games, a bodger with a pole th lathe, and seasonal refreshments Saturday 5 December including mulled apple juice. Many brought their own apples and took 7.30pm – Midnight advantage of the apple-juicer. in The Town Hall In a special event, supporters of Emma’s Trust (including Emma’s mother Two-course Meal & Dancing to and aunt, pictured) planted an Apple Tree The Monday Blues in memory of Emma Curtis-Smith. This is the last year for the Trust’s main Tickets £15pp fundraising activity – after a successful 10 from years – and the tree will be a lasting memory both for the Trust and of Emma The Guildhall & Jaffé & Neale herself. Many thanks to Heather Leonard Profits to The Scout Hut Fund and all the volunteers who helped organise and run the day, and who continue to look after this wonderful community asset.

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and to Cllr David Nimmo-Smith, OCC Cabinet member for Horsefair ‘Frustration’ Transport, asking for action, in view of the increasing threat to Demands continue for action by Oxfordshire County Council pedestrian safety, and also flagging up the lack of action on the over HGVs and Horsefair traffic dangers in Chipping Norton. Air Quality Action Plan. The famous ‘black box’ on Topside Last month’s News set out past and future concerns – was rapidly becoming ‘some sort of Ancient Monument!’. Cllr provoked by another recent pedestrian accident. All this came Graves concluded, ‘as a community we have been very patient to a head at the six-monthly Chipping Norton Traffic Advisory with this overriding issue and the time to step up the action is now! A letter will just be the beginning!’ District Councillor Geoff Saul told the News he will meet Cllr Graves and the Town Clerk to help petition the County to ask their Highways Department to re-evaluate the pros and cons of the various options – including all those back in the 2008 action report. But he ended, ‘How far that will get us is another matter.’ Street Art in Chippy

Committee meeting on 8 October when Mayor Mike Tysoe, with other councillors, met Oxfordshire’s ‘Steward for West Oxfordshire’, Ian Clarke. This is the main local forum to discuss traffic issues. Police were invited but were not represented and County Councillor Hilary Biles was unable to attend due to other Council commitments. At the meeting Honorary Citizens of the Town, Dr Sheila Parker and John Grantham, gave their strong views about the dangers and heavy traffic. Mayor Tysoe stressed that it was ‘impossible to walk safely as a couple through Horsefair’ (see letters page for a real example). Town Cllr Jo Graves, who chaired the meeting, told the News , ‘My frustration levels were very high, having sat in Traffic A thankfully gorgeous afternoon in mid-September saw an Advisory Meetings so often and heard the same response inaugural street painting event along Middle Row. Families that, considering the bigger Oxford County picture, our witnessed Chipping Norton sketch artist and event host problems in Chipping Norton in Horsefair are not so great. Denise Mansbridge kick off the #Superdoodle spectacular by Maybe our death toll is not high enough! It is, of course, chalking up a celebration of the Town’s entry in the national always about the money.’ Cllr Graves said they put to Mr #GBHighSt Awards for which Chippy has of course now been Clarke previous suggestions from various historical reviews shortlisted. Grown-ups and kids alike then tried their hand at and studies regarding the improvement in the traffic flow in doodling on the red brick pavement and were rewarded for Horsefair including: ‘gating’, a one way system, de-trunking the their efforts with free sweets and discounted smoothies at A44 and better signage of the Lorry Route to reduce HGVs recently opened Tickittyshake. ‘With such a great turn out this through Chippy. She said ‘for OCC to "shelve" the problem is year for our first ever #SuperDoodle, I’m sure it won’t be our not acceptable in view of the increasing fatalities.’ last,’ Denise said, so watch out for another event next Cllr Graves said they will continue to lobby and will now summer! See below for Denise’s latest cartoon charting the write to David Tole, OCC Area Steward for Traffic Control funny side of Chippy life for the News .

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Chippy in High St Awards final Chipping Norton’s entry is spearheaded by Experience Chipping Norton (ECN), a voluntary project promoting local It’s time to vote for Chipping Norton trade, tourism, community events and ventures via the web to help the Town win the award for and social media to inspire a bright future for the Town. Britain’s favourite high street after Preparations included a visit to last year’s winning town, reaching the final of a prestigious Belper, which has seen retailers benefit from increased high national competition. The Town has street footfall and a major boost to town pride. ECN beaten off more than 200 rivals to spokesman Shaun Fagan said being a finalist demonstrates battle for the crown and win a slice how people can pull together but winning would put Chipping of £80,000 in prize money up for Norton on the map for tourists to visit and businesses grabs in the Great British High Street looking for a great place to set up. Judges will visit from mid- October. Expect a number of events and celebrations to take place as the big day approaches. Adrian Wild, from gift shop Wild at Heart, said, ‘It’s very exciting. It really is a great town competition. Only and the traders here are all friends and help each other out. three towns were The town is buzzing from the news.’ Manager of Delicacy Deli shortlisted for the in Middle Row, Penny Troughton, added, ‘Chipping Norton is a ‘Best Market Town’ thriving market town – you can really get anything here.’ Keep category so it’s track of the competition by following the Experience Chippy against only Chipping Norton Twitter page @ExperienceCN and the two others. But now hashtag #Chippy2Win. Voting closes in early November. The it is down to a public Great British High Street initiative is a not for profit initiative, vote. Judges will be set up in the wake of the Mary Portas report. It seeks to visiting soon but promote UK high streets and ensure they are sustainable and everyone who vibrant. In its second year, it is sponsored by Boots, Costa, believes we deserve Post Office, Marks and Spencer and Tesco. to be crowned the Best Market Town in Fancy a night at The Fox? Britain should go to The Fox Hotel in Chipping chippy2win.com and Norton was due to open in Some of the team line up in picturesque vote. You can vote late October after months Middle Row for a publicity shot to every day and the of refurbishment, as one of promote the Town’s bid whole family can get the flagship inns in the Hook involved using their different emails! And if you’re active on Norton Brewery chain. The social media, please pass the word around using the hashtag Fox has a new look, both #Chippy2Win. As well as the prestige of winning, and a major outside and in – but is chance to put the Town under the PR spotlight for the right keeping much of the reasons (ie not the ‘Set’), the Town will get access to free advice traditional pub feel. Bar and with 100 traders in the running to receive expert tips and eating areas have been training from Google to bolster their digital marketing. opened up and Brewery Ops Manager, Bruce Benyon, told the News that they wanted to attract lots of local Christmas Tree Festival custom as well as visitors, who can now stay in one of ten en suite bedrooms (four have been added) all, as Bruce said, METHODIST Tea & Coffee with beds specially made for the hotel. A new car park (for CHURCH hotel residents and users only) will be on Cattle Market in Chipping Norton Lunches the space the Brewery owns, that was previously for public Cake & Craft use. Opening The hotel reopens with new manager and host Ashley Ceremony Stalls James in charge, plus a new chef and staff (watch out for rd Thurs 3 Dec Preserves their smart new uniforms). It will be open from 8am to 6pm midnight, serving breakfasts, coffees (‘brought to your table – not like other coffee bars in town’), lunches and evening Thursday 3 rd December 6pm – 9pm food with good quality produce sourced locallly. There is a Friday 4 th December from 2pm – 8pm new extended under-cover area and terrace at the back. Saturday 5 th December from 10am – 8pm Watch out soon for Christmas and New Year bookings and Sunday 6 th December from 1pm – 5pm no doubt the Newsteam ’s ‘Food for Thought’ editor will be (with Circuit Service at 6pm) on the look out to try the fare and maybe interview the All proceeds in aid of Chipping Norton and Stow chef. Oh, and readers hopefully will be able to buy their Methodist Circuit regular Chipping Norton News from the box in The Fox again soon. Good luck to all.

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Urgent repairs at Town Hall New boarding cattery at Vets Planning permission has been granted for a new boarding cattery at Chipping Norton’s new veterinary hospital site on Banbury Road. The building itself is of modular construction and has been donated by the MOD on condition that part of the building is used for charity purposes. Chipping Norton Veterinary Services will be working with the charity Sunshine Cat Rescue to assist in rehoming needy cats and kittens. The new cattery should be open around Christmas. Slow down New Street Aware of the dangers of more traffic speeding through Chipping Norton a group of Everyone will have seen all the scaffolding now on the front New Street of the Town Hall and last month’s Chipping Norton News residents have carried a short report on the falling masonry from under the recently taken the portico. Following an inspection of the stonework at the end initiative of installing of September with Ridge Consultants, Joslins Stonemasonry, a number of traffic the WODC Conservation Officer, Mayor Mike Tysoe and Cllr speed calming signs along their busy main road. The signs, Chris Butterworth, most of the damage was assessed and a provided by Oxfordshire County Council and Thames Valley programme for repairs suggested. It was not possible to Police, have been posted in prominent positions from inspect the portico at high level and more scaffolding was Sainsbury’s car park, down through the residential portion of required to enable full investigation. It transpired that the area the street and out past the playground. Resident Adam of stonework which has partially broken away was the result Jennings told the News that ‘whilst the signs are visually of inappropriate repairs done following the fire in the 1950s, impactful, highlighting their existence to your readers might thus leading to ingress of water and subsequent frost damage. also help instil the need for slower speeds on New Street. In addition, areas of the facing stone, which have become With many children living on the street, and many more using friable, need brushing to remove loose material before the play equipment on the recreation ground, not to mention repointing. It is hoped that the work will be completed by pedestrians walking to and from the Town, it has become early December. However, full access to the Town Hall will more important than ever to try every possible action we can continue uninterrupted during the work, despite the get traffic to slow down.’ Thanks to the great team involved scaffolding, including the disabled access ramp. including Dan, Charlie, Mark, Adam and Milton. Housing plan at Foxfield Neighbourhood Plan still stuck There is fear for the future of more trees near Foxfield Close Chipping Norton’s Neighbourhood Plan, which was finished and in Chipping Norton, following the submission of another submitted to WODC back in June, is still awaiting an official planning application for three houses. The latest application is ‘independent examiner’ to come and review it and sign it off (or in outline, seeking to establish the principle, not the detailed not!). Examiners are apparently in short supply. This needs to be design, of development. The site, the grassed area between done before it can be put to the voters for approval in a Foxfield Close and Kingstone Court, was once gardens of the referendum. The original work on the Plan started back in 2012 house, Anikiwa, demolished to build Kingstone Court, and has and a first draft of the plan was out in November 2014. been fenced off since the construction of these apartments. A Members of the Town Council’s Steering Group have been mix of trees borders the western boundary with Kingstone frustrated with the wait and any optimistic hopes of completion Court, of which four lime trees and a silver maple are in 2015 now look to have been dashed. We await 2016. All the protected by Tree Preservation Orders. Seven semi-mature effort on the Plan was started by Conservative Local horse chestnut trees border Foxfield Close but these are not Government Minister Eric Pickles with an enthusiasm for currently protected. The proposal is for the erection of three localism back in the Coalition government of 2010. single-storey homes and the retention of all trees except the silver maple. Some local residents have objected to the loss of habitat and the Town Council has asked for the main trees to All Souls Service be protected by Tree Preservation Order. In its formal All are welcome to attend the annual service at St Mary’s, response to WODC, the Town Council said there was Church, Chipping Norton on Sunday 1 November at 3pm insufficient information on the appearance of the homes to when people remember by name the loved ones who have enable them to comment. However, for sites outside a died, especially in the last year. It is a service of thanksgiving conservation area (which this site is) an outline application is with an opportunity to light a candle in remembrance of these a valid application; the Town Council may, therefore, have lost loved ones. Please inform Emma Bayley of anyone to be its chance to comment before the application goes to WODC remembered by name during the service (Tel: 646202 Email: for consideration. [email protected]).

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tipping. Chipping Norton is in one of the worst positions with Pumpkin recycling potential very long and expensive journeys, unless the County West Oxfordshire residents are being agrees long-term to build a major new tip in the North of the reminded to recycle their pumpkins County within easier reach. this Halloween. Residents can either leave their pumpkins at the side of their food waste bin to be picked up Hair-raising fundraising as part of their usual weekly collection, or cut them into pieces and put them inside this bin. According to the ‘Love Food, Hate Waste’ campaign, it’s estimated that over a million pumpkins are bought in the run up to Hallowe’en in the UK. Last year, with the help of residents, the District Council collected 3,200 tonnes of food waste in West Oxfordshire. This was all taken to the local food waste processing plant near Cassington to be recycled into electricity and fertiliser. To order a free food waste bin and kitchen caddy, see www.westoxon.gov.uk/bins or call 01993 861000. Richard Benfield (with the pink hair!) Linda of the Crown & More fears over closing Tips Cushion with Dave & Carol Peachy Oxfordshire County Council’s ideas to close even more Chipping Norton’s Dave Peachy and Deputy Mayor Richard waste tips were put to the County Cabinet on 20 October – Benfield got more than a ‘short back and sides’ on 26 after a ‘cost saving’ consultation was completed. Having closed September when they took part in a fundraising event for our nearest (Dean Pit) some years ago, they are now Macmillan Cancer Support at the Crown & Cushion, courtesy suggesting closing Alkerton (near Banbury) and also Dix Pit of Linda Maia E Silva. Hairdressers Sue and Richard (the only one left in West Oxfordshire). They want to end up Bartholomew were on hand with the electric razor and hair with either three or four for the whole county. West dye, and the results were startling. Dave was shaved totally Oxfordshire’s Cabinet Member for environment, David bald, while the Deputy Mayor rocked a striking pink punk Harvey, was quoted in the press staging a last ditch plea to look. The event was the brainchild of Carol Peachy, and the save Dix Pit – fearing even longer journeys and more fly- event raised a total of £902 from generous donors for this deserving cause. Town Christmas Dance Do you fancy an inexpensive night out in Chipping Norton Town Hall, dancing to a great band (the Monday Blues) and enjoying a two course meal – all for only £15 a head? Then the Town Christmas Dance on Saturday 5 December sounds like a good bet. Main courses Shepherd’s Pie and Veggie Lasagne should be on the menu – provided by the Crown and Cushion followed by puddings organised by the Scouts. Paid bar, no frills but some great fun. Chippy Mayor Mike Tysoe is leading on organising this together with the Town’s Scouts – the latter benefitting from any profits on the night and from the raffle. The Scouts need a new hut, and an enormous number of young people in the Town take part in and really benefit from Scouting activities. Christmas comes early Plans are well advanced for Chippy's traditional late night Christmas shopping extravaganza, to be held this year on Friday 4 December. Shops will be open late as usual and there will be stalls from charities and other organisations, a pig roast and carol singing. Other planned attractions are Santa's Grotto, to be held by the Lions in the old Post Office on Topside, and a candlelit procession by local children's groups. Stores will be dressing their windows and there'll be a competition to judge the best one, with shopkeepers dressing up in Christmas jumpers. Also the Town will be holding a Best Dressed Christmas Dog competition on the night (interpret that as you will), which it is hoped will be judged by Ben Fogle.

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There will be stalls from local charities and clubs. Already signed up are Dementia Friends, Cancer Research UK and the Half marathon for Africa Samaritans with more coming on board every day. If you're In October local involved in a charity or other body and want to put a stall up mums Kate Wilson on the evening, please contact Graham Raven of the Lions on and Ginny Bayliss 645134 or [email protected]. ran the 2015 Vitality Oxford Half Marathon to raise Aldi takes shape funds for Rafiki Thabo Foundation based near Chipping Norton. The charity supports a variety of education projects in Kenya, Uganda and Lesotho and pays the tuition fees of around 150 children/young people from disadvantaged backgrounds who would otherwise be forced to drop out of school. It also supports ‘Eat Well to Learn,’ a school meals programme in Uganda, and the ongoing development of a secondary school The new Aldi supermarket building is taking shape rapidly at in Lesotho. Ginny and Kate are aiming to raise £700, which the site up the Banbury Road in Chipping Norton. See picture will pay for a student in Kenya or Uganda to complete 3 years taken on 11 October. The plan was to open early in 2016 and of secondary education. You can still sponsor Kate and Ginny it looks like the work is on schedule. just search for them by name on http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/giving/ For more information Help with Xmas Trees about Rafiki see www.rafiki-foundation.org.uk Yes, it’s the time of the year when hardworking organiser Pat Lake is looking for volunteers to put the lights on our town Off to Buckingham Palace Christmas trees. He needs about 24 people willing to give up a Chipping Norton Town Council was asked to nominate local few hours on two Sundays, one to dress the tress and the other people who have contributed to work with young people in to take the lights off. Once again Pat said, ‘it is important to say, the community to go to a Royal Garden Party at Buckingham that if we do not get enough volunteers, so that the job is done quickly, then we will not be having any trees in the Town.’ The lights will go on the trees on Sunday 29 November, (meet 9.30am at the Town Hall), and will be taken off on Sunday 10 January starting at 9.30am. Help is also needed on Monday 30 November to distribute the trees around the Town so that they can be put up. Start time 9.30am. Pat needs to know how many volunteers we have, so if you want to help, please contact the Town Council office 642341 and let them know what Sundays you would like to do. Pat stressed, ‘Everyone agrees that the Town always looks attractive at Christmas, but it does not happen without the willing volunteers’. Pop up Museum shop Look out for the old empty Post Office in Chipping Norton’s High Street on the mornings of 18 and 19 November. The Museum of Local History team will be there with a ‘pop up’ shop selling their wares: Museum books, Bliss Tweed cushions, scarves, pictures and more. Thanks to Graham Simmonds for the use of the shop space and to Brenda Morris for sending the News the information. Knit to help refugees Blankets and clothing for babies, children and adults are needed for the Syrian refugees who are facing a freezing winter with nothing to keep them warm. Volunteers are welcome to knit and crochet together during the weekly Wednesday coffee mornings in the Methodist Church Hall from 9.30 to 11.30am. Wool and needles can be provided or you may prefer to bring your own. Everyone welcome. Elaine Lugo

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Palace next year. At their September meeting they proposed assorted local charities. For more details of the programme, that David and Tracey Shadbolt’s names should go forward for look on www.adderbury.org. their work with the Brownies, Guides and Roller Hockey in Gill Randall Xmas Market Committee Chipping Norton. Craft Fayre in Enstone ‘Dementia Friendly’ Chippy? Enstone’s new Parish Hall with its own car park at The Help launch Dementia Paddocks, Enstone, was officially opened in November last Friendly Chipping Norton year by local MP David Cameron. To celebrate its first year September saw the first the Hall is holding a Craft Fayre on Saturday 14 November steering group meeting to link from 10am to 2pm. With at least 18 different stalls to tempt, with this national a raffle of donations from each of the stallholders and light initiative, bringing refreshments, why not call in to see what is on offer. A warm together represent- welcome awaits you. atives from Chipping Norton Theatre, Lights Up, Oxford Co-op support Lawrence Team Health, West The Midcounties Co-operative has kicked off a new Oxfordshire District partnership with The Lawrence Home Nursing Team, raising Council, The Co-op £470 from different fundraising activities. In a ‘static bike ride’ and Age UK in the store colleagues and customers were challenged to Oxfordshire. collectively cycle 5000 miles. The Co-operative Travel sold Dementia Friendly Chipping Norton will aim to increase second-hand books and collected foreign coins from awareness of dementia locally and work together with customers. Co-op colleagues also volunteered at the Town services that support people living with dementia, with a Festival. Dr Jonathan Moore, Chairman of LHNT, said, ‘The launch planned for February 2016. If you are interested in work that we do in Chipping Norton and surrounding villages supporting this initiative or in hosting a Dementia Friends is vital in supporting those in need of end of life nursing care Information Session, please could you email at home and we are always looking for new ways to help fund [email protected] for more information. our service. We’re really pleased to be partnering with The Midcounties Co-operative and fundraising so far has been New support service November will also see the great fun for all to be involved in. introduction of a new dementia support service in Oxfordshire, delivered by a partnership of Age UK Oxfordshire, Guideposts Trust and Young Dementia UK. The Fracking protest in Town service will be based at Age UK Oxfordshire in Abingdon and Local members of the take referrals from GPs as well as doctors in Memory Clinics. Green Party and Friends It will provide information and guidance to people with of the Earth were out in dementia as well as their carers on support and services Chipping Norton on 10 available in local areas throughout the County. October to protest against fracking – and in Upcoming dementia-friendly events Tickets are now on particular Barclays sale for a Tea Dance featuring the Peter Gill Swing Band at the Bank’s involvement. The Royal British Legion, Lansdown, Bourton on the Water on bank owns 97% of a Sunday 1 November 2.30-5pm. Tickets are £10, include a company called Third cream tea available from Kelly on 07707 Energy, planning to frack 787580/[email protected]. There’s a relaxed in North Yorkshire performance of panto Robin Hood at Chipping Norton where they plan 19 wells Theatre on Thursday 10 December, 2pm. Tickets are £10.50 near to the National (carer goes free) from the Box Office: 642350. Park. The protesters say Claire Sexton that Barclays have a long history of funding ‘dirty Adderbury Xmas Market energy’ and that the fight against fracking is the ‘sharp edge of the battle against climate change in the UK’. Last month Adderbury’s traditional Christmas market is being held in St fracking protesters drove a white tank outside MP David Mary’s Church, Adderbury on Saturday 28 November, 11am- Cameron’s home in Dean. 4pm with lots of stalls – just the thing to start buying your Christmas presents. There will be cards and crafts for sale, perfumes and unusual gifts and jewellery. There’ll also be This Changes Everything film homemade soup and hot dogs for lunch, tea and cakes in the It’s time to confront global climate change properly – On 18 afternoon in Church House, or mulled wine and mince pies in November at 7.45 for an 8pm start in Chipping Norton Town the Church. Santa will be in his grotto for the children from Hall, a special showing is planned of This Changes Everything 11am-1pm and 2-4pm.We are all volunteers running this the film based on Naomi Klein’s book which explores the annual event in our 11 th year and have raised thousands of challenge of Capitalism vs The Climate. The free show is being pounds for Katharine House Hospice (every year) and other organised by Transition Chipping Norton.

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New Chippy Quaker meetings Help for reading? Do you know anyone in Chipping Norton who struggles to read? Would you like to help them? The North Cotswold Branch of the charity Read Easy, provides volunteers in local towns to help adults October saw the who, for one reason or first Quaker another, never learned meeting in Chipp- The former Friends’ Meeting House in to read at school. Kenny ing Norton New Street, has been converted into was left to bring up his since 1904, with two homes young son when his over 30 people filling the lower room in the Town Hall. wife died two years ago. Without doubt, the event helped those new to Quakers to He decided to learn to learn what attracts people to Quaker meetings, what they get read to help his boy from being part of the local meeting and what keeps them with school work. involved. Those returning were reminded of how passionately Kenny recently won a Kenny with coach Margaret and his Quakers hold their shared values of truth, equality, simplicity, Kindle in the prize draw new Kindle peace and sustainability and how they try to live at the charity’s AGM. All those who completed the book Yes adventurously. Three Quakers who go to the Charlbury We Can Read during the year were eligible for the draw. For meeting described their personal experience. Marion through information contact Sue Brereton on 0844 493 0686 or her passionate commitment to pacifism. Ian, as an atheist [email protected] or see www.readeasy.org.uk . described the inner strength he gets from silent meetings and Angela, who described her journey from childhood Christianity through an interest in Buddhism to being part of Join the Low Carbon lifestyle Charlbury Quakers. Would you like to join the Car Feedback included, ‘I would love a Wednesday evening Club and use a VW Polo based in meeting as weekends usually are difficult for me’ showing Chippy and three vehicles there's definitely ample enthusiasm for a series of monthly including an electric one based in Hook Norton? Do you meetings. These will commence on Wednesday 4 November need help insulating your home or running renewable heating in the Lower Town Hall at 7.30pm followed by an opportunity systems? Would you like ideas for food recycling and recipes to discuss and explore Quaker values. Further details contact for using leftover food? Local community organisation ‘Hook Marion Hall 01608 677267. Norton Low Carbon’ will be in the Co-op Supermarket

FOOD FOR THOUGHT Food for Old and Young What’s on offer for the older and younger generations in our local restaurants? Sue Hadland continues our local feature. Very few places in the area do specific pensioners’ meals but delicious desserts and finish it all off with coffee. Yummy! the two that I have visited offer amazing value for money. The Blue Boar is happy for pensioners to eat off their The Crown & Cushion does a pensioners’ lunch in their children’s menu or have a half portion of selected main restaurant every Tuesday. It only costs £5.95 and meals. The children’s menu is excellent. The fish this includes two courses and waiter service. and chips and chicken special are favourites with There is always a choice of three mains and three the children in our family, all at a reasonable desserts. There is usually a roast and then fish price. and chips, chicken, a vegetarian dish, sausages and In general children are well catered for in mash or pasta. All very homely food, nicely Chippy. Bitter & Twisted has a good menu and served in their very pleasant dining room. I have been told that the macaroni cheese is a A more expensive alternative is big hit. No 24 has various dishes available and Wychwood Golf Club at Lyneham which also a lunch including drink and milk lolly for £5. provides a sumptuous carvery every Tuesday. It is Presumably due to planning restraints no chips essential to book (01993 832011). This senior are available here which a lot of children like. citizens’ lunch is £10.95. The dining room is The Old Mill has an extensive menu for the beautiful, looking over the golf course with little visitors and is an exceptionally child marvellous views. The carvery is one of the best I have ever friendly place to visit. It can be a bit noisy at times, especially eaten. At least two meats are on offer with every if their coffee machine is going nineteen to the dozen! accompaniment possible including divine Yorkshire puddings. Finally there is the little Tickittyshake bar in Middle The variety of vegetables is outstanding. Last time I visited Row for a real kiddies’ treat with smoothies, milk shakes, ice there were carrots, roast and new potatoes, cauliflower cream and sweets with brightly coloured bean bags and cheese, cabbage, parsnips, swede and leeks. They make stools for them to perch on.

10 LOCAL NEWS entrance on Saturday 7 November between 10am and 4pm to have a chat. Or see www.hn-lc.org.uk. Hooky’s race against cancer A ‘Highlands’ farewell The members at Highlands Day Centre in Burford Road said goodbye to Jane Simms who, after over five years managing the day centre, is moving on to work with the local PTS Ambulance Team here in Chipping Norton. The members and the Management Committee thanked her for all her hard work and involvement in improving services within Age Concern Chipping Norton. We wish her all the very best in her new job and look forward to her popping in for coffee Over 100 participants entered the Hooky Alternative Race and a chat. Pat Lake, Chairman of Age Concern Chipping for Life at Hook Norton on Sunday 4 October, to raise money for Cancer Research UK. Ages ranged from three to ‘not divulged’ and the overall winner was 14-year-old Luke Street who completed the three-mile course in a very impressive 21 minutes. It was a great family affair and runners were not restricted to humans! Total raised is nearly £900 to date. Donate more at the Just Giving page on www.JustGiving.com/HARFL6. We are always pleased to hear from volunteers and look forward to seeing everyone at our stall during the Chippy Late Night Shopping event on Friday 4 December. Gill Begnor , North Cotswolds Fundraisers for CR–UK

Jane pictured above with Pat Lake and husband Phil Below: Mrs Pam Ryman and Highlands chef Theresa agree that Sexual exploitation warning Cake Tastes Better Together at the Macmillan Coffee Morning The West Oxfordshire Community Safety Partnership, in Norton presented conjunction with Thames Valley Police, organised a special Jane with a gift from screening at Chipping Norton Theatre for a film on 15 the Committee and October on the subject of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE). another from The audience included 112 sixth form students from Chipping members at a dinner Norton School, nine uniformed police including Supt. Kath attended by Lowe, Area Commander for West Oxfordshire and Cherwell, everyone connected and many other community workers and interested parents. with Age Concern The film was powerful, showing the many ways children, Chipping Norton. particularly those aged 12-13, can become victims of Highlands also blackmail, cyber bullying, online grooming leading to human hosted a Macmillan trafficking and the possibility of suicide. Recent high profile Coffee Morning, cases in Oxford and Banbury highlight the fact that these sending a £50 sorts of crimes are never far from where we live and that donation to the fund keeping personal details and photographs on privacy settings from the sale of when using social media is extremely important. Children cakes. Our thanks to everyone who made it possible. If you would like any information about our services here at 'Have You Booked Highlands please contact us on 643320. Joyce Taylor Your Christmas Party Yet'? Screen by the Green The Crown & Cushion The next Screen by the Green movie at Churchill and Sarsden Village Hall, on Saturday 14 November, is Still Alice , cert 12A. is offering Adapted from the novel by neuroscientist Lisa Genova, Still Alice A Three Course Meal tells the story of Alice Howland (Julianne Moore), a respected linguistics professor, who is diagnosed with early onset Coffee, Mince Pies Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 50, and the effect this has on her family and relationships. Moore won Oscar, Golden Globe & and Bafta awards for her brilliant performance. This is an Disco affecting and very worthwhile film that deals with a difficult subject with grace, sympathy and insight. All films start at 7.30; For only £24.95 per person tickets £4.50, pay at the door. For more information and to book Call 01608 642533 to book ring 659903 or email [email protected].

11 LOCAL NEWS must also be aware that making so-called ‘friends’ when dedicated SoleMates footcare service, Handyman service, playing online games can lead to trouble and that only bona Gardening service, Employer Support service and Home fide friends should be accepted. For confidential support and Helpers, who can give practical assistance in the home and/or advice, contact the County’s Kingfisher team on 01865 help people to participate in activities again, or feel less alone 335276 or www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/saferchildren and isolated. Costs range from £16 an hour to £25 an hour for specialist advice and support with recruiting and New estate agent opens employing your own care staff. (Additional charges may be incurred where extra costs such as transportation or meals Wychwoods Estate are required.) If you are interested in taking advantage of this Agents are delighted service, or need more information call Age UK Oxfordshire to announce the on 0333 577 1044. opening of their new Chipping Norton office in Horsefair in Chippy’s top filmmaking talent the converted pub Want your wedding filmed or your building. Theirs should company promoted on video? Fancy be a familiar name, as funding a new film? The News team they have been selling went to find out more about an and letting properties in the area for the last 14 years. With interesting film and audio offices in Burford, Charlbury and Milton-under-Wychwood, production company operating both they say that now seemed the right time to set up an office in in Chipping Norton and across the the Town itself. The main contact in the branch will be Emma UK. We met the two principal Cattell, who has been with Wychwoods for nine years and, members of Rodeax Ltd: Dan Lee, living in the Town, has a strong knowledge of the local area. She Dan Lee & Rodeo audio specialist, and Rodeo Whiter Whiter of Rodeax Ltd told the News , ‘We have many clients in Chipping Norton and who handles film and video hope that our new office will be a convenient place to pop in production. They work on and see us. The addition of this office strengthens our commercial videos as well as art representation in the area and gives us in-depth coverage and house films, the latter being expertise. If you have a property to sell or let and would like screened at various film festivals and honest, no obligation advice, then please do call us on 637247.’ specialist cinemas in Oxford and London. Two such films are Rocket Age UK’s help at home Man , about a two-man space mission set 50 years in the future, and Flutter , Many people will be aware of the wonderful work carried out which attempts to explore the by our local Age Concern (part of Age UK) at various venues mindset of a stalker. The latter was the winner of the 2015 in the Town, such as Highlands, Chatterbox, Sitting Exercises Cinewomen Festival. Another, The White Room , a psychological and Computer Classes. But few know about a fairly new thriller, is currently in production and the team are in the service offered by Age UK Oxfordshire. Set up as a social middle of crowdsource funding for the film. They have been enterprise, the service offers a range of flexible practical making films for six years, both in studios that they hire in solutions to help people stay independent both at home and Oxford, and in their base in Chipping Norton. They use state- outside of it, and tailored towards individual preferences and of-the-art professional equipment, some of which is hired in lifestyles. Along with signposting people into other support when needed. They also do audio mixing, recording, post services, such as welfare benefit advice to increase income or production, sound design and editing. The team are interested local activities in their communities, the services offer a in more crowdsourced funding and in promoting their commercial video services, including filming weddings and Vintage Tea Parties making promotional videos. You can find out more at Perfect for any occasion www.rodeax.com. We specialise in weddings, christenings, birthdays & anniversaries Whatever the occasion or celebration, we provide Library help for housebound everything you need to to make your day extra special The Library at Chipping Norton is supporting Experience Chipping Norton in their bid to become the High Street of the Year – market town category – and would like to encourage you to come in and place your online vote using our free public computers. You just need an email address and the staff will be pleased to help you set one up if you don’t already have one. Do you know of anyone who is housebound and might like to benefit from our new service delivering books or audio material to them in their own home? We have some great new volunteers following last month’s appeal, and Call Victoria on 07967 833 979 or email they will soon be looking for candidates to use this service. [email protected] Chipping Norton is now the flagship (or should that be Web www.chippingnortonteaset.co.uk Tweet @chipnorteas Facebook www.facebook.com/thechippingnortonteaset guinea-pigs) for this worthwhile initiative. And don’t forget the free Rhymetime sessions held on Monday mornings – from

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10.30am. All little ones are welcome to come and share in the all details and how to help with Christmas knitted novelties, fun. Just a reminder that the library opens late, till 7pm on a the Christmas quilt raffle, Christmas Cards and lottery: Friday and all day Saturdays, in case you can’t make it in during www.khh.org.uk. regular working hours. Judith Bucknall , Library Manager Fancy a holiday with the Hunt? Talk on William Smith The Daily Telegraph recently reported that a former Dutch soldier, Roel Rol, is advertising on his website ‘hunting holiday breaks’ with the Heythrop Hunt for rich foreigners. Mr Rol claims to have been a Hunt member for 10 years. Earlier this year, he began marketing hunting holidays in the Cotswolds, believed to run into thousands of pounds. After accusations that he was suggesting illegal hunting, Mr Rol’s website now says it, ‘only promotes hunting within the law’ and that ‘hunts hunt within the Hunting Act of 2004’. The Heythrop’s secretary Guy Avis was reported as not knowing about the website. He said, ‘I honestly don’t know anything about it’. The Hunt was in the news again last month when ex-Tory donor Lord Ashcroft’s unauthorised ‘revenge’ biography of David Cameron was published. His book alleges that the MP wrote Prof Hugh Torrens pictured at the unveiling of the William to the Government’s top lawyer when a Heythrop friend was Smith plaque in March charged with fox hunting in 2008, after which the case was On Friday 20 November in Churchill Village Hall (7 for dropped. 7.30pm) there is an illustrated talk about the career of geologist William Smith who published his famous geological Secrets passed in Chippy shop map in 1815. Now Prof Hugh Torrens (who unveiled a plaque Another snippet from Lord Ashcroft’s book claimed that to Smith in Churchill in March) and Prof Geoffrey Walton, Samantha Cameron sent messages to Rebekah Brooks via both experts on the life and work of William Smith, will be intermediaries at a shop in Chipping Norton after David shedding light on the early part of his career as a land Cameron reportedly ‘threw her to the wolves’ during the surveyor, and the influence he had on local water features and phone hacking scandal. So . . . might it have been Sainsbury’s or drainage work – for all of us who are interested in William maybe Daylesford Organics? Does anyone know? Smith but don’t know much about geology!! Fabulous new William Smith merchandise will be on sale – pens, pencils, tea towels, placemats, postcards and lots more – all in aid of the Fastest shed goes faster Churchill and Sarsden Heritage Centre. Tickets: £7 to include A Great Rollright dad a glass of wine. Contact: Janie Hextall 658278 or who made the world’s [email protected]. fastest shed has already broken his own record (reported Katharine House roundup in September’s News ). Lights of Love Remembrance Services will be held at St Kevin Nicks built a Mary’s Banbury on Monday 30 November 7pm, and St Peter’s shed on top of his old Brackley on Wednesday 2 December, 7.30 pm. Lights will be Volkswagen Passat ‘just dedicated to those being remembered – request forms to the for fun’, in a project hospice by Monday 9 November. Santa Fun Run is at 11am that cost him on Sunday 6 December at Spiceball Park, Banbury. Entry: £13 thousands of pounds. for adults, £7 for children aged 6–16 years and free for under In September Kevin 6’s. This includes a Santa suit, mince pie and medal. Festive went back to the Celebration Concert Tuesday 8 December at 7.30pm in All airfield again and Saints, Churchill, OX7 6NU. Seasonal music, Voice Box choir, raised his recent speed festive readings from local celebrities. Tickets £20 each (inc record from 70.77mph refreshments). Christmas Tree Festival St Mary’s Church to 80.47mph. Mr Nicks Adderbury from 4-6 December. Forty trees sponsored and says he has now had enough shed-racing, and wants to move decorated by local organisations will be on display. Music and on to turning other vehicles into unusual creations. refreshments during the day and Victorian Carol Concert at 4.30pm on 6 December. To decorate a tree for £30 please Come to Norts Master Quiz contact Ray Robinson on 01295 369419 or email Nortonians Amateur Dramatic Society are running their ever [email protected]. Proceeds split between church popular Quiz and Supper evening on Friday 6 November in and hospice. Christmas Bag Pack Days need volunteers to the Parish Rooms by St Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton, help on the day – Chipping Norton’s is at The Co-op on starting at 7.30pm. The price of £8 includes supper and the Monday 14 December. Please call Sarah Brennan on 01295 Quiz (teams of six, or you can join a team on the night). Please 816484 or email [email protected]. See website for bring your own drinks. Remember, ‘Points win Prizes’. For

13 LOCAL NEWS further details please contact Andrew Pitman, 01993 830930 or [email protected]. Police and Crime update This month’s report from PC Mick Anderton and local press Helen & Douglas Santa Run Spate of car damage Charlbury in September suffered a spate of vehicle damage – a cloth soft-top roof slashed, spray Christmas is fast painting along another, tyres slashed on two others. If you approaching and booking have information on any of these crimes please call 101. has now opened for ‘Santas on the Run’, Oil tank theft attempt On 27 September in Junction Road, Oxford’s annual festive 3k Churchill, there was an attempt to steal heating oil from an fun run (or walk!) hosted external oil tank. The offenders left empty handed, put off by in aid of local children and the audible alarm which sounded. Please contact police on 101 with information. young adult’s hospice Helen & Douglas House. Immigration check Following intelligence received, officers This year’s ‘Santas on the Run’ will take place on Sunday 13 waited for a suspected ‘over-stayer’ to attend his vehicle in December and will start on Broad Street, central Oxford. To Chipping Norton. He was seen to drive off and then stopped find out more and book your place, please visit and arrested. He has been handed over to the UK Border www.hdh.org.uk. Your local Helen & Douglas House shop in Agency for his immigration status to be decided. Chipping Norton is also getting ready for Christmas and has Assault conviction Gary Smith of Chipping Norton was a great selection of cards and gifts. Please call in and Angie and convicted of harassing a woman in Banbury by sending her team will help you find that perfect gift. sexually explicit images, making threatening phone calls and text messages; and of assaulting the same woman by beating her in March in Chipping Norton. He was sent to prison for Farewell Old Friends 26 weeks and ordered to pay £100 compensation, £620 costs Richard Jeans and a £520 criminal courts charge. Missing girl found Thames Valley Police would like to thank I have received the very sad news that Richard Jeans, only son the public for its help in tracing a girl missing from Chipping of the late Reverend Richard and Mrs Pauline Jeans, died Norton. Michaela Rose, aged 16, had last been seen in suddenly aged 50 years. No doubt some of the residents of Banbury at about 10.30am on Wednesday 6 October and was the Town will remember, with affection, the Reverend Jeans, found safe and well the evening of 7 October. who was vicar here in the 1960’s, and his family. Heartfelt and deepest sympathy goes to Richard’s widow and children, his The next Have Your Say Meeting for Chipping Norton is on Saturday, 5 December 10-11am at The Town Hall with sisters Biddy, Clare, Catriona, Elspeth and their families PCSO Cheryl Harrison. To contact local police call 101 and Sue Harris ask for the Chipping Norton team. Robert Ian Wood A sincere thank you from the family of Robert Ian Wood for your heartfelt thoughts, sympathy and support which were greatly appreciated and will always be remembered. We appreciated your presence, along with the many written tributes and Mass cards received at that time. A grateful thank you also to the Lawrence Home Nursing Team. Elizabeth Wood and family

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Support for a new Chippy ‘Skatepark’ Would you or your children support and use a skatepark and multiwheeled sports facility at Greystones Sports Ground? How can it best be supervised and kept safe? Or what other ideas would you have for sports and leisure facilities? The Town Council has a plan and £100,000 could be available for this. But Chipping Norton Mayor Mike Tysoe has written below – wanting more support and backing from the Town’s young people and parents. He has asked all the Town’s Schools headteachers for help ... and readers can respond directly to him as well to a questionnaire by mid-November. Skatepark plan ready of Chippy Swifts clubhouse – just to name a few. Many need adult supervision but could be used by a significant part of the ‘I would appreciate some urgent help on this. At a recent population.’ meeting of the Town Council's Recreation Committee we decided that we should bring you all up to date on where we Views from schools and Town are with the ‘Chippy Skatepark’. A skate park has been under ‘So we have some major questions to answer finally before we discussion since about 2004 and it now seems that we are commit and we would like your collective assistance in closer than ever before to getting this project off the ground: gathering the answers to make sure this skate park really is • we have allocated the needed. So how can the schools and others help us? We ground for it – namely at would like to connect more Greystones recreation area directly with the children to just north(ish) of the Chippy see how many are really into Swifts pitch this sport ie how many have • we are very close to One of the possible designs for the new Skatepark boards/skates etc etc and also finalising the design – we are down to two possible any ideas from them as to how the skate park could be designs and are just going through some ‘tweaks’ with the policed/kept clean / controlled etc etc.’ designers The Mayor and Cllr Richard Benfield (Chair of the Recreation • we can probably finance this very major project Committee) would like to hear views not only from schools but (£100,000) without affecting the Town’s Council from any readers and potential users in the Town. A questionnaire Tax/precept is available from the Town Clerk at the Guildhall – or write direct The Council intends to further develop the facilities at to [email protected] - ideally by 16 November. Greystones, with or without the skatepark, and we will use Section 106 Funds (paid by various Housing developers) that are coming to the Town in the near future. So, I hear you Care Compassion and asking yourselves “Why is the Council hesitating??” The main reason can be summed up as “lack of belief” that there is a Conversation Ltd “real need/interest” from the Town's children and that usage will be limited. The facility may also not be looked after. Our Domiciliary Care Agency New Street Recreation ground has been refurbished at a cost At Care Compassion and Conversation Ltd, in excess of £60,000 (again from Section 106), and improvements have been very well received, but recent we understand that being able to live at events show how things can be quickly ruined by a few selfish home, maintaining your independence can and destructive individuals. There are also worries about mean everything to you. these areas becoming hangouts for drug users.’ We are able to offer a range of support to Is there enough interest? help you to do this. ‘The concern about “lack of need/interest” in a Greystones skatepark is based on our recent attempts to gauge interest Our services range from companionship to from the Town’s children. We have attempted three open complex personal care by friendly, qualified consultations: two in the Town Hall in August (long afternoon/early evening sessions) and one all day event at the staff. recent Emma’s Trust Saturday event. These three consultations We are a locally based company who are resulted in us taking a grand total of 56 comments from a committed to raising the standards of care population of 6500. To spend £100,000 of (essentially) the Town’s money on the feedback from 0.86% of the population provided in people’s homes. would be fairly stupid of the Town Council. We fully appreciate For more information please the fantastic work done by, for instance, Chippy Trixsters in developing “wheel based” skills and fully realise that a skate call: 01608 648656 email: [email protected] park would help children hone their skills for Trixsters and or visit our website: www.carecc.co.uk other sports. But again we feel that this might be for a fairly CQC Registered small user-base. There are other possible projects that the money could be used for: a new scout hut, tennis courts, all NOW RECRUITING weather pitches for cricket, football or rugby, a refurbishment

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On stage Literary leisure The Theatre, Chipping Norton – as well as this year’s Woodstock Poetry Festival 13-15 November. From Friday panto Robin Hood (17 November to 10 Jan – see feature evening until Sunday night poets will be reading from their below) there are two streamed performances that should be own work and that of others they admire.There will be worth seeing: 7.30pm on 22 November, the Broadway performances, with and without music, and an open mic production in New York filmed by National Theatre Live of session for local poets to read their John Steinbeck's play Of Mice and Men ; then at 7.15pm on own work in a relaxed atmosphere. 26 November there’s a live broadcast of the Kenneth Branagh Events include: Friday: 8.30pm Don Theatre Company production of Shakespeare's The Winter’s Paterson and Kei Miller; Saturday Tale , with Judi Dench and Branagh in the leading roles. Tickets 7.30pm Katrina Porteous; Sunday: in person or by phone from the box office 642350, or online 6.00pm Tony Harrison, poet and www.chippingnortontheatre.com. translator pictured left, whose writing has inspired so many poets; Sunday: Sherlock’s case in Chippy! ‘ Sherlock Holmes, the world’s 8pm Poems from Bernard greatest consulting detective....There is one unpublished case O'Donoghue & Tom Paulin with I’d like to tell you about which you will find of interest traditional Irish music from Mick Henry and Nick Hooper. Full because part of it happened right here in Chipping Norton.’ details and venues from the Woodstock Bookshop So Dr. Watson begins the story of Sherlock’s Excellent [email protected] / 01993 812760. Adventure (by James Barry). Will Sherlock outwit Professor James Moriaty to save Lucy Matravers’ inheritance? Dominic Sandbrook launch party This academic Performances on 13 February 2016 in the Town Hall. Book historian, writer, columnist (and Chippy resident) launches his the date then watch for posters! latest book, Great British Dream Factory , at Jaffé & Neale on This will be in the new relaxed format of café theatre; Thursday 12 November. The book explores how Britain with the ticket price including light refreshments! The cast reinvented itself as a cultural superpower in the 20t h century includes the Nortonians’ stalwarts with Chris Geary playing after the fall of the British Empire. An accompanying TV series, Sherlock and Andrew Pitman playing Watson. Professor Let Us Entertain You , will be on BBC2 this autumn. Dominic will Moriaty is David Simkin with his niece, Lucy Matravers, played read extracts from the book and sign copies from 6.30pm. by Beverly Digwood. Please contact Jaffé & Neale for more details.

Robin Hood at The Theatre The Panto Pippins Rebekah Burman first became a Pippin* in 2005. She’d been The tradition of Pippins at Chippy stretches back to to the dentist and learned that the dentist’s daughter was Robinson Crusoe in 1978, when all were girls. Boys were preparing to audition to be a Pippin in allowed in 1983 for Graeme Garden’s Sleeping Beauty and Puss in Boots . She was intrigued. The have continued to share since. The word ‘Pippin’ appears to next day Rebekah found herself be unique to our panto. Tamara Malcolm, The Theatre’s standing in an audition room singing founder, explains says the term originated in Old Time Music Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious – one Hall and was introduced to her post-performance in the of the few songs she knew the words Theatre Bar one evening by some touring old hands. Rather to. She got the part, and so began her than inviting a star name to headline the show, local child love of panto and The Theatre. That performers share the stage with professional actors to first production was, she says, a magical showcase a quality production with plenty of laughs. It’s a experience. Working alongside tradition which makes professional actors and singing and the panto loved in dancing onstage and in costume left a town and much lasting impression. She began going to further afield. No Rebekah Burman: the Youth Theatre and returned to the doubt the Pippins this chaperone (2015) panto the next year as a Pippin in and Puss in Boots year will play their Mother Goose. Inspired by her, Pippin (2005) part in making sure Rebekah’s siblings followed in her Robin Hood is as footsteps to tread the boards. Brother, Thomas, was a Pippin memorable for us, the in Rapunzel and Dick Whittington . Now younger sister audience, as it is for Hannah, already with several years’ panto experience, is a them. If you’re speaking Pippin in Robin Hood . This year, as well as her pre- interested in being a university job as box office assistant, Rebekah is chaperoning Pippin next year, the Robin Hood Pippins. She’ll use her first-hand experience auditions are usually to make sure the child actors are comfortable, prepared, held at the beginning of September. Look out for flyers or and enjoying themselves. Unlike in Rebekah’s day, with two contact The Theatre ask to go on their Pippins email list. groups of Pippins, today there are three teams, each of four *Pippin = colloq an amateur actor between the ages of 8-14 Pippins and one dedicated chaperone, who alternate who lives in Chipping Norton or surrounding area, and who performances. performs in the annual pantomime in the town.

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Jazz and classical music Handel's Messiah The Chipping Norton Choral Society and Cotswold Baroque Orchestra, conducted by Peter Hunt, Chippy Jazz & Music 2016 perform Handel’s Messiah at St Mary’s Chipping Norton, Following this year’s successful 7.30pm, Saturday 5 December. Tickets £12 in advance, £15 on event the News received this the door. Under 14s free. Available on 01869 338586, from message from the organisers: Jaffé & Neal, [email protected], or choir members. Many thanks to everyone who helped make CJAM 2015 such a Arts and Crafts success! We plan to expand Artweeks Christmas Exhibitions 14 & 15 November. A Chippy Jazz 2016 to a two-day selection of the venues from Oxfordshire Artweeks will be event, on Saturday and Sunday open for this weekend. In the Artweeks Catalogue, available 10-11 September 2016. What last May, they are marked with a tiny Christmas tree. Nearby are your views on this? We'd love artists include: Graham Mant at the Pig Pen Pottery in to hear from you: [email protected]. All the best from the Bloxham; Martin Sanders, maker of turned wood pieces in Chippy Jazz organizers. Rock Hill, Chipping Norton; Tina Burnett's paintings in Over Sunday Jazz at Blenheim Palace – Jazz Sundays have Norton and Guen Palmer, jewellery designer and maker in returned! Brighten up your weekends in the darker months Kingham. More Artweeks artists will be exhibiting throughout and enjoy live jazz in the Water Terraces Café. Performances November and December. For further details visit are from 10am to12.30pm and have brunch while you listen www.artweeks.org. in this relaxed atmosphere. For entry, buy a Palace, Park and Craft Guild’s Exhibitions The Gardens ticket or show your valid Annual Pass. NB No Oxfordshire Craft Guild Christmas Sunday Jazz on 22 November due to the Living Crafts for exhibitions are at three venues during Christmas Fair. www.blenheimpalace.com for further details. this and next month. T own Hall The Lenthall Concerts at Burford School. Wednesday Chipping Norton 27-29 November 7.30pm, 4 November: RCM Strings directed by Mark has Selma Stagg of Chipping Norton, Messenger with Sarah Hayashi (soprano) perform Mozart’s porcelain jewellery, Jane Hanson, Symphony no 29 in A K201 and Exultate Jubilate , Sibelius’s ceramics (pictured), Martin Cash Andante Festivo , Palladio by Karl Jenkins, Schoenburg’s Verklärte wood sculptor and Liz Fletcher, leather bags and accessories. Nacht op 4. Oxfordshire Museum , Woodstock, 14 Nov-23 Dec has the Wednesday 7.30pm 2 Guild's centre-piece 6 week-long Christmas exhibition. Over December: The popular duo of 25 designer-makers will be showing their work, including: Michael Bochmann (violin) and Alison Dupernex, knitwear; Richard Shock, wood turning; and Adam Khan (guitar) are joined Eddie Kent, Raku and stoneware. The Arts and Crafts by Julian Rowlands on the Market in Broad Street, Oxford, 5-6 December. OCG have a bandoneon, the iconic tango rigorous members selection process, so visitors can be instrument, perform Schubert’s assured of the quality of the hand-crafted pieces on show. Sonatina in D D384, Vivaldi’s Those looking for unique Christmas gifts will find a wealth of Concerto in D RV93, J S Bach’s beautiful objects from which to choose. For detailed Arioso , Histoire du Tango by Piazolla, Pont Mirabeau by Adrian information visit www.oxfordshirecraftguild.co.uk Politi. Tickets: £12 and £3 for students, £50 membership Year 12 & 13 Photo Exhibition Following the judging of tickets for all six concerts in the 2015/16 season. More at the competition sponsored by the Cotswold Decorative and www.lenthallconcerts.org.uk or Tel. 01993 824949 Fine Arts Society and Cotswold Woollen Weavers, the photographs from Years 12 and 13 from Burford and Chipping Norton Schools will be displayed at Beaconsfield Hall, Shipton-under-Wychwood on Saturday 7 November, 10am to 4pm. All welcome. Art and the Napoleonic Wars This Cotswold Decorative and Fine Arts Society lecture will be by Lois Oliver. Marking the Battle of Waterloo 1815 bicentenary, it complements Join us & celebrate other events around the country presenting contrasting views of the wars presented by British and French artists. 11am on Dominic Sandbrook's 11 November at Bradwell Village Hall, Burford (refreshments from 10.15) Non-members welcome (suggested donation £8). The Great British See www.cotswolddfas.org.uk Dream Factory Charlbury Art Society 7.30pm.11 November. Artist Rod Craig will demonstrate Painting Imaginary Landscapes. Thurs 12 th Nov 6.30pm Everyone welcome. The Memorial Hall, Browns Lane, Charlbury. £3 for non-members.The pre-Christmas meeting Middle Row, Chipping Norton will be on 9 December, when Glena Chadwick will give a talk 01608 641033 [email protected] on Nativity Art . For further information phone Marion Coates on 810116.

17 Chipping Norton remembers the Fallen of 1915 In this year’s Remembrance tribute, we feature the fighting and the fallen during the second year of the First World War As the First World War continued to rage throughout 1915, these nine men from Chipping Norton were killed in service that year.

WALTER EDWARD HARRIS ROBY GIBBS was killed aged 31, on 5 th June died aged 24, on 22 nd March 1915. 1915. A Lance-Corporal in the Queen's Own He was on home service as a Oxfordshire Hussars, he was killed Private in the 4 th Reserve Battalion accidentally while in the Somme. He was one Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire of nine children of Joseph and Emma Gibbs of Light Infantry. He is buried in 7, The Leys, Chipping Norton. He is buried in Whittle Road Cemetery in Le Grand Hansard Military cemetery in Chelmsford. Morbecque, Northern France.

PHILIP CHARLES VALENTINE ERNEST MARGETTS died KERBY (KIRBY) was drowned aged 26, on 11 th July, having been aged 22, on 11 th April 1915. He was wounded in the 2 nd Battle of a Trooper in the 1/1 st Battalion, The Ypres. A Lance Corporal with Warwickshire Yeomanry, and was the 2 nd Battalion, The Gloucester- travelling to Egypt on the shire Regiment, he was the son Transport Ship Wayfarer , when it of Thomas and Elizabeth of Over Norton and the was torpedoed in the Irish Sea. He husband of Ivy. He is buried in Erquinghem-lys had worked as a groom for the Churchyard in the Pas-de-Calais, France. Chamberlaynes at The Elm, Church Lane, Chipping Norton. He is commemorated on the GEORGE FREDERICK Hollybrook Memorial in Southampton and Mollington MURRELL died aged 41, on war memorial. 4th September 1915, from pneumonia. He was serving as a ALBERT HARRISON was killed aged 35, on 9 th May Private in the 31 st Mobile 1915, during the 2 nd Battle of Ypres. He was a Private with Section of the Royal Army the 2 nd Battalion, The Gloucester Regiment. Born in Alfred Veterinary Corps. The husband Terrace, Chipping Norton, he was the son of James and of May Fowler from Chipping Eliza and the husband of Hannah, He is remembered on Norton, he had a son James, the East Brent War Memorial and the Menin Gate and had worked as a groom Memorial for soldiers with no known grave. and coachman at Over Norton Park. He is buried in Lillers Communal Cemetery in JAMES ALDRIDGE was killed France. aged 19, on 10 th May 1915. A nd Private in the 2 Battalion The newly-commissioned FREDERICK KNIBBS died Oxfordshire and War Memorial in Salford aged 26, on 28 th September Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 1915. He had been wounded at he was killed in action on the the Battle of Loos while serving Western Front during the Battle as a Lance-Corporal with B of Festubert, after landing in company, the 9 th Battalion, The France just a month earlier. He Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was was the son of James and Annie the son of Frederick and Sarah of The Green, Chipping Norton. of 30, Rock Hill, Chipping He is commemorated on Le Norton. He is buried in Le Touret Memorial for soldiers with no known grave. Treport Military Cemetery near LEWIS HUBERT HALL Dieppe. was killed aged 23, on 31 st October 1915. He was a Private in the 19 th County of London Battalion but was born in Chipping Norton. At the age of eight, he was living with five siblings at 13, King’s Yard, Chipping Norton, having lost both his parents. He is commemorated on The Loos Memorial for soldiers with no known grave.

With thanks to Steve Kingsford and the Chipping Norton Royal British Legion. More information about all these men can be found on their website www.chippingnortonbritishlegion.com and in the Book of Remembrance in the Chipping Norton Museum.

18 Chipping Norton remembers the Fallen of 1915 In this year’s Remembrance tribute, we feature the fighting and the fallen during the second year of the First World War As the First World War continued to rage throughout 1915, these nine men from Chipping Norton were The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in killed in service that year. action during 1915 Many men from Chipping Norton served in the Oxfordshire & Bucks Light ROBY GIBBS was killed aged 31, on 5 th June Infantry (OBLI) and these were the battles they fought in a century ago. 1915. A Lance-Corporal in the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, he was killed attack at Festubert and took part in the accidentally while in the Somme. He was one Battle of Loos together with the 6 th of nine children of Joseph and Emma Gibbs of (Service) Battalion, who went to France in 7, The Leys, Chipping Norton. He is buried in July 1915 with the 20 th (Light) Division. Le Grand Hansard Military cemetery in The 7 th (Service) Battalion and the 8 th Morbecque, Northern France. (Service) (Pioneer) Battalion were in 26 ERNEST MARGETTS died Division and were also in France for a aged 26, on 11 th July, having been short period in 1915 before being sent to wounded in the 2 nd Battle of Salonica to assist the Serbs against the Bulgars. If this sounds like one battle after Ypres. A Lance Corporal with Many local soldiers would have served in the 2 nd Battalion, The Gloucester- another, this is indeed how it was, leading the OBLI, as did Walter Harris and James to so much appalling injury and loss of life. shire Regiment, he was the son Aldridge. The Regiment was fighting in of Thomas and Elizabeth of Over Norton and the It is humbling to think that 5,878 of the Mesopotamia and North Russia. At the end Regiment’s soldiers gave their lives. Their husband of Ivy. He is buried in Erquinghem-lys of May 1915 they successfully attacked the Churchyard in the Pas-de-Calais, France. memory is enshrined in the Book of Turkish positions which resulted in an Remembrance in the Regimental Chapel advance of 100 miles. In September of this in Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford. GEORGE FREDERICK same year a further advance was made to Every two months on Saturdays there is a MURRELL died aged 41, on the battle of Es Sinn in which the Turks Turning of the Pages service to 4th September 1915, from rd st were again defeated, the 43 1 Battalion commemorate them and those lost in pneumonia. He was serving as a executing a wide turning movement across WWII. Private in the 31 st Mobile the desert. On 22 November the Battle of Section of the Royal Army Ctesiphon, near Baghdad, was fought. In Veterinary Corps. The husband spite of very heavy losses the British won of May Fowler from Chipping the day, but were forced to withdraw Norton, he had a son James, owing to lack of numbers, the 43 rd losing and had worked as a groom 13 officers and 450 other ranks. Meanwhile and coachman at Over Norton the 52 nd , 2 nd Battalion was fighting in France Park. He is buried in Lillers on the Western Front and by the end of Communal Cemetery in 1914 had suffered over 600 casualties. In France. 1915 the Battalion made a gallant night

FREDERICK KNIBBS died Photos of the OBLI parading in Chipping Norton reproduced by kind permission of the aged 26, on 28 th September Chipping Norton Museum of Local History 1915. He had been wounded at the Battle of Loos while serving as a Lance-Corporal with B We Will Remember Them company, the 9 th Battalion, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was Local Remembrance event s the son of Frederick and Sarah of 30, Rock Hill, Chipping Salford’s new Parade & Services in Norton. He is buried in Le Memorial Chipping Norton Treport Military Cemetery near Dieppe. In 2014 Salford Parish Council Chipping Norton’s Annual commissioned Salford resident, Remembrance Day Parade and Jason Sparvell, to design and Service is on Sunday 8 November, sculpt a Commemorative War led by the Town’s Royal British Legion. The Service in Memorial. This is a rusted mild St Mary’s Church, with the Mayor and Mayoress steel poppy mounted on a block present, starts at 10.45am, with a parade to the of Cotswold stone and is church starting outside Sainsbury’s at 10.30. Contact pictured left. It will be dedicated Malcolm Holland on 641745 if you need a wreath. as part of the Remembrance After the service will be a march past and muster of Service at Salford Church on the the British Legion and uniformed organisations and morning of Sunday, 8 November. reception by invitation with the Mayor in the Town The Parish Council obtained Hall. On Wednesday 11 November the Legion will grants from the County & District hold a Two Minutes Silence at the Town War With thanks to Steve Kingsford and the Chipping Norton Royal British Legion. More information about all these men can be found on their website Councils and the Rollright Quarry Memorial in London Road at 11am. Anyone wishing www.chippingnortonbritishlegion.com and in the Book of Remembrance in the Chipping Norton Museum. donated the stone. to take part please be there by 10.50am.

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All happening at The Rollright Stones A recent Saxon discovery, many more visitors, skywatchers and parking issues have put the historic Rollright Stones in the spotlight. News team member Gay Holden went to find out more at the well attended Rollright Trust Forum in October at Long Compton Village Hall. The Saxon Lady mystery voiced about future lighting which might The mid 7 th -8 th century AD Anglo-Saxon emanate from the new Premier Inn in Chipping burial of a female near the Rollright Norton across the valley, but it is hoped that Stones, discovered by metal detectorists light spillage will be alleviated by adding the from the Muddy Boots Metal Detecting correct shielding to any large lighting Club in April, has aroused much local and installations there. national interest. The full story may take Dowsing, drones & detecting another two years to unfold but at the The development and use of drones for aerial Forum, Anni Byard, Finds Liaison Officer photography was described by Shaun Matthews for Oxfordshire and West Berkshire who showed a fascinating film he shot of the County Councils gave an intriguing Stones and associated crop circle this summer. progress report. Detectorist Charlie Dowsing and Ley Lines were explained by Ron Wood initially found what was first Dudley Smith, whose passion for this aspect of considered to be a bronze Roman patera archaeological divination was obvious. Metal or spoon, but with the discovery of the detectorist Charlie Wood, who discovered the associated burial with its distinctively bronze Saxon pan, made the assembled Saxon grave gathering laugh when he recounted having to goods, opinion sleep alone on the windy hill guarding his find quickly changed. It and the skeleton, with a duvet and a bag of fish is now likely that and chips for company. All in a day’s work. the almost Top: Archaeologist Anni complete female skeleton was 20–30 Byard excavating the skeleton Parking and traffic issues years of age at death, about 5’3” tall and Left: the long-handled metal pan Head of the Trust, George Lambrick, updated of Caucasian/Mongoloid ancestry – confirmed by certain skull features such as a square jaw and flattish face. Her cause of death was not determined, though some healing of a leg bone was noted. In time, isotopic analysis of her teeth will reveal with some accuracy where she spent her childhood. The grave goods are of special interest and suggest she was a woman of mid to high status. There were smaller items such as seeds and a pin, but more important finds include amber beads, bone discs, a faceted rock crystal on an iron chain and the above-mentioned long-handled metal pan. The pan was possibly originally inside a box, as a preserved piece of wood and two metal hinges were found nearby. The pan may have had a water-pouring ceremonial function, water of course featuring in ceremonies from the earliest times to the Cartoon by Sarah Withey, Rollright Trustee & CNAAG member present day. If there are any residues in the pan, they will be the Forum on parking and traffic issues – particularly as more discovered and analysed in the months to come. So was she visitors come to the site. There has been a considerably a witch? Anni Byard stressed that ‘Archaeology will say’ that increased footfall to the site in recent months, especially since she was a woman of some status, buried in a somewhat prehistoric studies were introduced to the National intriguing location (near the Rollright Stones) and she may Curriculum in 2014 for primary schools. As a result, many have had some special knowledge, properties and/or school parties have visited the site and the resulting Health influence. For now, she and her grave goods reside at the and Safety implications of children using the lay-bys are British Museum awaiting ongoing analysis and we shall just obvious. An application to put in a dedicated car park has have to be patient for the next update in a year or two’s time. been deferred by WODC Uplands Planning Committee. Cllr Dark delights in the sky Geoff Saul said officers thought it was too close to the Stones and would affect the historic setting. Councillors were, This year The Stones site was awarded Dark Sky status, granted however, sympathetic and suggested the Trust propose when light pollution is at a sufficiently low level to allow another site after talking to local landowners. The Trust are astronomers and star-gazing hobbyists an extremely good view also keen that speed limits should be lowered for the stretch of the Milky Way, not just the major constellations, with the of road passing the site. naked eye. Robin Smitten, Chairman of Chipping Norton Amateur Astronomy Society, said that the next nearest such Please visit the Stones and, if you have a few hours spare at Dark Sky site is many counties away. Robin showed some weekends and enjoy talking to the public, then consider becoming astonishing photographs (taken at the Stones) of the Milky Way a warden for The Rollright Stones. For more information, contact to illustrate the high quality of the night sky there. Concern was [email protected]

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New Air Cadets sign up the Cotswold Line Promotion Group for their annual rail outing. The venue was Tenby in Pembrokeshire; a membership During September Chipping Norton Air Cadets undertook of 500+ travelled in First and Standard Class from local First Aid Training, Map Making, Radio Training and Leadership stations, including Kingham. The weather was warm and sunny Exercises. They also participated in a Wing Air Recce and an enjoyable day was had by all. Competition and some represented the Wing at swimming. At John Dagley-Morris will visit on 3 November to talk the weekends some cadets had the opportunity to join the about Mainline Steam – 1970 Onwards. Battle of Britain parade in Banbury, attend a Radio Operator For our festive meeting on 1 December, Frank Cooper workshop, go flying and have fun at the Wing Activities Day. will entertain us with The Great Western Society, when we Mid-September will enjoy our usual glass or two of wine with hot mince pies. saw our annual Not forgetting, of course, our now famous Christmas Raffle! inspection by Wing New members and visitors will be very welcome to join us Commander Fisher. on this occasion, our final meeting of the season. Combined with an Estelle Brain open evening, cadets showcased a range of Stargazers face the chill of Autumn activities and gave a Chippy starwatchers now notice the evenings drawing in, the presentation to night skies getting clearer as their honed senses feel the parents, potential colder air nips at the fingertips as the early breath of autumn cadets and VIPs. whispers in on the night air. Awash with euphoria from the Following this, 18 new stunning early morning spectacle of the total lunar eclipse on cadets attended their first parade evening – an amazing achievement by our current cadets who enthusiastically demonstrated what the ATC is about. We say ‘goodbye’ to older cadets off to university and welcome to all new ones. ATC is for young people aged 12-17. We meet every Tuesday and Thursday 7-9.30pm in Chipping Norton and our next joining day is in February. Our growing squadron needs more adult volunteer staff. If you are interested in helping, or you just like to find out more about air cadets, please visit www.136atc.com or email [email protected]. Helen 28 September, plucky members of Chipping Norton Amateur Banbury eccentric at History Society Astronomy Group festooned with telescopes pitched camp in Tooley’s Boatyard for our very succesful involvement in A large and appreciative audience listened to Bill King's talk Banbury Canal Day on 4 October – pictured above. entitled Yesterday's Runways. He opened with the fascinating This month we look forward to visiting Charlbury School fact that, although we have now only one Service airport, at and the Social club at Broughton, hopefully under clear skies. Brize Norton, in 1935 there were 52 airfields within a 25 mile Our guest speaker is world renowned astrophotographer radius of Oxford, and 96 military airfields in the Cotswolds Damien Peach talking about his work, on Monday 16 and Central Midlands. Mr King then outlined their November in the Methodist Hall, 7.30 for an 8pm start – development and decline alongside that of the aircraft using them. He showed pictures of where to spot disused control towers and runways. The presence of a large contingent of Chipping Norton Lions personnel brought benefits to villages and parts of Chipping Norton, replacing gas lamps with electricity and the Cotsold Come to our crazy privies were discarded as mains sewerage came on stream. On 9 November Stephen Wass will recount the life of Reindeer William Castle – Banbury eccentric and Morris Fool. The meeting will be held as usual in the Methodist Hall at 7.30pm. Race We look forward to welcoming members and newcomers. Liz Whitaker Night Party Railway Club’s festive timetable Real racing not films!! On 6 October Michael Clemens made a return visit, with The Crown & Cushion Hotel more of his father’s archive railway films. Jim Clemens Chipping Norton travelled the UK in the 50s and 60s filming the current railway scene. Michael has transferred these early films, improving the Saturday 28thNovember quality and showing them in this new format. The BBC and other documentary film makers often consult him on period 7pm with first race at 7.30pm rail, using his authentic railway scenes in their programmes. Tickets £3 from any Lion or Michael always presents an interesting and professional talk, President Rob Caswell with excellent slides, this time featuring Devon and Cornwall. 01608 646003 On Saturday 26 September several Club members joined

21 CLUB NEWS everyone more than welcome, light refreshments available. group a fresh feeling,' says Jan. 'Sometimes we have roared We are planning a very busy Autumn, Winter and Spring laughing and at others we have been moved almost to tears season of astronomical events including Stargazing Live where by what our speakers have shared with us.' you may very well find us in the town centre again. We are Next year has a full programme of monthly events now ready for some great local observing evenings between including literature, horses, photography and soap and that's now and Christmas. just for starters. Membership is £10 on the door at each CNAAG exists for everyone with an interest in space and meeting and booking your place is now essential. All are the Universe and if you are looking for a new interest, re- welcome both those currently running a business and those kindling an old one or are just plain curious, please come who might be thinking about becoming an entrepreneur. along to any of our meetings where you will be made most Above all Chippy Lippy is great fun. Call 01993 832357 or visit welcome. Visit www.cnaag.com for further information. http://chippylippy.wix.com/chippylippy for details. Robin Smitten Jan Harvey Chippy Lippy’s moveable feasts Caring and Sharing with CNWI At their October meeting members of Chipping Norton Women’s Institute were given a thought-provoking presentation about the Bethlehem Project. Trevor Hodkinson is helping to raise awareness of Hogar Nino Dios, a home in Bethlehem run by Mother Pia, which provides vital care for a group of disabled and abandoned children. Among their needs are speech and language therapy and Mr Hodkinson has twice led teams of expert volunteers out there, taking both aid and advice. His enlightening talk certainly informed those present about a truly worthy cause. On Wednesday 11 November we look forward to the festive season with a Christmas crafts workshop led by Ann Sharman and on 27 November we have the opportunity to visit Worcester for sightseeing and a Christmas market. Visitors and new members are always welcome to join us at Chippy Lippy, the networking group for local businesswomen, our monthly meetings in the lower Town Hall at 2.15pm. was taken over by writer and artist Jan Harvey at the Prudence Chard 642903 beginning of this year and has become something of a perambulating affair that holds its meetings in and around Chipping Norton. Venues have included Wine Bear (pictured) Bealicious Bakery, The Cotswolds Distillery, Trudie's Tea Garden and The Fibreworks. It has been a year of inspiring speakers, high quality venues and cake, indeed cake has been an omnipresent theme! Speakers have included Natasha Roderick-Jones speaking on the Power of Silence; Bea Bates introducing new business Bealicious Bakery; Clare Mackintosh author of the best selling thriller I Let You Go and Holistic Therapist, Annette Rainbow amongst others. 'We have had a wonderful year of very enjoyable and 4 WEEKS FREE TRAINING AVAILABL E inspiring meetings, it was a risk to perambulate but having INSTRUCTOR 07977 56 00 86 different venues, often tailored to the speaker, has given the www. MartialArtsVoucher .co.uk

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Scouting round up resources, and sleeping in them, plus preparing and cooking wild food on camp fires (rabbits and pigeons with their coats Beavers Seventeen Beavers attended the Beaver District still on!!). Definitely not a weekend for the faint-hearted. Camp at Horley in September. Activities ranged from The Scout group is currently desperately in need of emergency first aid, building a fire and then cooking on it, volunteers – particularly someone to help with the Scout putting up a tent and making clay faces. Everyone had fun and section, a couple of hours a week. We also need a all achieved their Camp Craft Activity Badge. We presented quartermaster, to look after our camping stores. Please three Beavers with their Chief Scout’s Bronze Awards and contact [email protected] for further details. they have now moved up to Cubs. Five new Beavers were invested at the beginning of October. Explorers Several of the Explorer scouts help Cubs The Cubs have been looking at which services our regularly with Beavers, Town has to offer and working out where each one was on a Cubs and Scouts. Four of map of Chipping Norton. They have also been thinking and the unit attended the learning about many different types of religion. The highlight of Scouts’ annual County our weekly meetings so far this term though was learning why Patrol Camping weekend at it is important to recycle rather than just putting everything the start of October and in the bin. The Cubs then made ‘pet palaces’ out of rubbish. helped run activities (one There was a good attendance for the county activity day pictured left!) in the lovely at Horley. The sun shone while Cubs bounced on a huge pirate- sunny weather. We also ship bouncy castle, scrambled up a climbing wall, ran around in have some Explorers doing the dark playing laser quest and tried out archery amongst gold and silver Duke of many other activities. Walking tiredly back to the mini-bus two Edinburgh expeditions this of the Cubs agreed that it was the best day out ever! autumn. If you would like to Scouts The new term has started as busily as the last one join Explorers please ended! We have had eight new youngsters join us, most contact Cathy on [email protected]. We moving up from Cubs. We have been working on survival generally meet at the Scout hut from 7-9pm most Fridays. skills, and had two patrols of Scouts attend the County Patrol Explorers are aged thirteen and a half to eighteen and Camping weekend. This is a fun competition weekend of welcome both boys and girls. scouting skills – our teams came 5 th and 13 th out of 48 teams! We soon have another weekend camp, testing out the survival Chadlington Flower Club skills the Scouts have learnt. Building shelters out of natural September’s meeting was a workshop, where we all brought flowers and greenery from our gardens and shared ideas for an Autumnal Display. November is our Open Evening in Chipping Norton Town Hall on the 19 th . Entitled Christmas with Nadia , tickets are £10, doors open at 6.30 for a 7.30pm start Further information from Anne on 683289. Elaine Parsons Clubs for the Bereaved The Friendship Club Over the past year we have visited the pantomime, been entertained by a magician, had a Christmas party, been on a coach trip to Salisbury, enjoyed a cream tea and a fish & chip and a harvest lunch (not all at once!) and we have also heard various interesting speakers. We have about 25 members of varying ages – there is no age limit. We are not a morbid miserable group, but we laugh and joke and have a good time so that spirits are lifted. There must be loads of bereaved people out there who need help and we hope that they will read this and join us. We are a friendship group where friends can be made. Membership is £5 a year with a £2 sub each month to pay for tea, cakes and the rental of the room. We meet at Highlands Day Centre on the last Saturday of the month from 1.30- 3.30pm. To find out more call Pat Smith on 678456. Age UK – Late Spring This is another bereavement group which also meets at Highlands – on the second and fourth Friday of each month from 10am to noon. This group is smaller and more serious – everyone helps the others to understand their problems. We listen if others want to talk. We do also have a laugh and a joke and then go home with our spirits much lifted. We also sometimes go out for meals, the theatre or coach trips. We always go to see Shakespeare

23 CLUB NEWS in the Park at Wadham College in the summer which is very topics. If any reader of this article has a gardening problem enjoyable – even if you don’t like Shakespeare!! please send your question to the secretary Eileen Forse on Again, everyone is made welcome – come along to a 643275 via email [email protected] or our website meeting and see for yourself. Call meto find out more. cnha.uk and then come along on that evening to hear the Pat Smith 678456 answer, as visitors are always welcome. Chipping Norton Yacht Club Chipping Norton Lions Club Our September talk Pilotage on the Thames was given by This month we have further news on our working pilot Christmas events. Firstly, a reminder that Phil Shayler, our annual Reindeer Race which will be who’s been a held at the Crown & Cushion Hotel on pilot for 24 28 November, please see the advert on years. Taking p21 for more details. This year we are control of having a Grotto for Santa in the former navigation for Post Office on the Christmas Shopping enormous, unwieldy craft in the busy, shallow and tidal waters Evening on 4 December and on Saturday 5 th 10am-1pm and of the Thames and its estuary has plenty of excitement to 1.30-4.30pm. Tickets for children to come and see Santa there offer. The job is 24/7 – the actual duty is typically preceded by will be on sale at Gill & Co and Bartholomew’s Hair. Please dashes in taxis and an hour or so in the Pilot boat, and if the see posters round town. Santa has sent a further note:- weather is so bad that leaving a departing vessel is too Dear Children, dangerous, the pilot stays on board and is flown home later… I now know that my visits to Chipping Norton will take place on the The images that grabbed our attention were those of the evening of 4 December and during the day of 5 December in a prangs. Close quarters manoeuvring is not without incident – Grotto specially built by the Lions in the Old Post Office courtesy of and there were a few gasps from the audience! Mr Graham Simmonds. Please see the posters with details of It was a fascinating insight into a marine profession that where tickets can be obtained. I look forward to seeing you all. not only keeps us sailors and our seaways safe, but also keeps Santa the ports working efficiently to support the vast amount of modern ship-borne trade without which we islanders would With all this going on we will welcome anyone interested in be eking a pretty meagre existence. joining us: please contact our President Rob Caswell on 646003. Our November talk will be given by Bob Bradfield who is Liz Nason ‘dragging archaic navigation information into the 21 st Century’. Visit cnyc.co.uk for details and to book. Roger Backhaus AGM & Gardeners’ Question Time The winter season for the Chipping Norton Horticultural Association began in October with a visit of Peter Preece with Every Picture Tells a Story – full report next month. 29 West Street, Chipping Norton, Our November meeting on Wednesday 18 th will start at Oxfordshire OX7 5EU 7.15pm with our AGM, please support the committee at this Telephone: 01608 642606 meeting. Then at 7.30 approx we will hold a Gardeners’ Question Time. The panel will be drawn from five enthusiastic members whose interests cover a wide range of gardening We offer quality products at competitive rates

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Top Ten Events at Over Norton WI that many people have of the present situation. It was indeed an informative and thought provoking evening. Thursday 12 November: Write for Rights: In November Amnesty members write to those whose rights are being abused, offering friendship and support. Do join us and write a brief message; we supply cards, postage and information about each recipient. We meet at 7.30 in the Lower Town Hall Friday 4 December: We have a stall at Chippy’s Christmas Late Night Shopping Event but there is no monthly meeting in December. Enquiries to Priscilla Peace 01451 30459 or ww.amnesty.org.uk/groups/chipping-norton Barbara Walters and Kaye Freeman Over Norton WI have had an entertaining summer with a variety of speakers. The October meeting was a wine tasting Ramblers a-leaping! evening with Jaspar Corbett of Compass wines. The evening which was open to guests was well supported, lively and In the warm, hazy autumn sunshine, Chipping Norton informative! Ramblers enjoyed the undulating scenery around Whichford, On 19 November Dominic Sandbrook will be our speaker with a talk entitled The Top Ten Defining Events in Britain since 1945 . The December Meeting will be on the 17 th and will be a social evening open to anyone who would like to come along and see what the WI is about. Mulled wine and minced pies will be served. Meetings are at 7.45 in Over Norton Village Hall. Contact Ros Millard 07932 180407 for details. Amnesty – migrants welcome? Instead of our usual meeting, Mike Kaye from the NGO Still with Brailes Hill in the distance. The five mile walk went Human, Still Here talked to us about the harsh treatment that through woods and fields where wild flowers were still asylum seekers face on arrival in this country. It was a wide thriving and the last of the blackberries still juicy to tempt us. ranging, informal talk, providing us with facts and figures about In the bottom of a pretty valley a wide stream presented a the actual situation here as opposed to the misconceptions problem, but with a bit of teamwork we leapt over it and were soon on our way. Our next walk will be on 1 November. We meet in New Street Car Park at 1.30pm (November to April) for car sharing. Enquiries to Heather Leonard on 643691 or email [email protected] or alternatively call Jenny Harrington on 643269. Please come and join us. Pat Mannakee Fancy keeping a wormery? North Oxon Organic Gardeners will be revealing all about Starters - Homemade tomato and vodka soup with focaccia bread using ‘worm power’ to create nutritious compost at our next Smoked salmon with potato and caper salad, Beetroot and gin jam & wholemeal hoagie bread meeting. This follows on well from October’s meeting when Deep fried brie with a rich Cumberland sauce member Christine Briner demonstrated how to grow a range Mains - Roast turkey with roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables, chipolatas, of salad vegetables over the winter. The trick is to sow them stuffing and gravy indoors in small pots at the end of August so they’re a good Baked salmon with a white wine, crayfish and saffron sauce Roasted red pepper stuffed with butternut squash, beetroot & melted goats cheese, served with wild rice Desserts - Christmas pudding with Brandy sauce Vanilla cheesecake with cranberry compote Chocolate torte with raspberry coulis accompanied by caramel & sea salt popcorn Coffee and Mince pies £25 per person including Christmas crackers For bookings please contact 01608 642383 / [email protected]

25 CLUB NEWS size by late autumn, and can withstand life outdoors under as individuals to talk over the history of Britain and the EU, enviromesh, or in a greenhouse for a ready supply of salad please contact me on the usual e mail leaves. Happy members went away with plantlets Christine [email protected] had ‘prepared earlier’. Wormeries will be taking centre stage Jim Stanley on Wednesday 4 November when Jenny Wiltshire will reveal the art of ‘Worm Composting’ – an excellent option for small Chippy Labour Party gardens too. And on Wednesday 2 December our annual Exciting times for Chippy Labour Party. Our membership has ‘Eating Meeting’ will be an opportunity to share samples of doubled this year with the influx continuing, following the our families’ traditional Christmas fare. election of Jeremy Corbyn as our leader. Do join us – Meetings start at 7.30pm, St Mary’s Parish With a record turnout at our October meeting we had a Rooms. Visitors: £3, Members: £1. Details from stimulating debate about the impact of cuts on Chipping [email protected], 01295 780710, www.noog.org.uk. Norton, and what we could do to draw attention to the devastating impact these cuts will have. From downgrading Green Gym tends the Orchard the Hospital to closing the Children’s Centre; from the We have spent one session continuing dangers of traffic in Horsefair to the cuts in bus in the Community services. We meet in The Chequers on the second Thursday Orchard preparing for of each month – why not come along? Apple Day: scything the On the social side we will be having the next of our grass and weeding the perennial Quiz and Chips events on 6 November, again in The trees. Some apples and Chequers. On 10 December the constituency annual dinner pears have already been will be in Chippy. For more information contact any of your picked and others will Labour councillors or me, David Heyes, at soon be ready. Look for [email protected]. the signs which tell you which are ripe and then help yourselves! Also in Chippy, we have worked in Pool Meadow, More gigs with West Oxfordshire WI clearing rubbish from the stream and pulling up Himalayan It was a treat to listen to a very passionate speaker, Abbie Balsam. In the newly planted Fitzalan Triangle we have Cooke in September. Her career as the only female ship's continued to weed around the young trees and have erected figurehead carver in the country was truly fascinating. She is a smart new information board. also the co-founder of Gig Arts, a charity that goes into At the request of local geologists, we have worked at the schools and colleges to encourage young people to use their Hook Norton nature reserve where there is an interesting skills to help others through Art, Drama and Music. rock face which they use for demonstration to students and October's guest was Tim Yeoman a volunteer who works which needed clearing of ivy and other weeds. with Refugees and Asylum Seekers at Campsfield House in Come and join us on Wednesday mornings! Get fit and Kidlington. In November WOWI will be amongst the enjoy good company while caring for the local environment. congregation laying a wreath at the Remembrance Day We have jobs for all ages and abilities, no joining fee and lifts Service at St Mary's Church and then on the 16 th we are lucky may be available. Visit our website: www.chippygreengym.org, to have Fibreworks visiting us to show us how to make a phone me on 01608 643269 or email Material Christmas Wreath to adorn our doors! Please come [email protected]. Everyone is welcome! and join us at St Mary's Parish Rooms at 7.30pm. Jenny Harrington Our last meeting of the year will be at Whistlers on 14 December when members will enjoy a meal together before UKIP Corner we start thinking about our own Christmas food! The Great European Debate is upon us, with the in and out Hilary Dix 646228 campaigns launching to hours of TV time and reams of press coverage. While this is played out on the national stage, it is the people who will decide, and while the coverage is informative to a point, how does all this affect us here in Dyakowski Gafford Chippy. Does all this coverage tell us what we need to know? So lic i tors In the 70’s, we looked to our politicians to act in our interests, they were respected, but the scandals with expenses and the rest has sown distrust of the political class. The We offer an efficient, friendly & personal previous referendum was set against a backdrop of industrial service in conveyancing of res i den tial & unrest and political turmoil, Britain was the ‘Poor Man of business premises Europe’, but we are now in a totally different climate. Stay or leave, none of us, in all honesty, know what will happen, but * wills & probate * leases & tenancies * now we can look to the past, the various treaties we have * free stor age of wills & other documents * signed and decide how we wish the next 40 years to unfold. I believe we would never have joined if we had the net, in HOME VIS ITS NO PROB LEM those days all our information came from the press and TV, but now everything is on line, and when you compare that 2 New Street Chip ping Norton OX7 5LJ coverage to the text of the Rome Treaty, the EU founding Tel: (01608) 643051 Fax: (01608) 641019 document, you will understand why there is such a strong Email [email protected] movement to leave. If you would like to meet, as a group or

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Town Sports Awards progression is self-evident to the student. Aside from the martial art itself, we are different from Thanks to the continued support of the Town Council the other clubs as we use modern training mechanisms such as Sports Awards will continue in 2016. The presentation evening professional videos of training sessions with individual analysis has been set for Friday 26 February in the Town Hall. Details and feedback so students can improve their skills. Students will follow in December. Below you can read about the recent also receive copies of lessons on DVD so they can track their exploits of a former Sports Award winner, Jack Taylor. progress. Graham Beacham We currently run two classes a week, Over Norton Wing Chun Street Defence Village Hall on Saturdays 9.30-10.30am and Salford Village Hall The Wing Chun on Wednesdays 6.30-7.30pm. Classes are for men and women Street Defence Club and current students range from experienced martial artists started in summer to complete novices. To attract more women to try Wing 2015 to practice a Chun we are launching a ladies only class in Chipping Norton martial art said to starting in the New Year. have been created Visit www.wingchunstreetdefence.co.uk or call 07527 by a woman in 283429 for more information about the Club. China hundreds of Barry Holland years ago. It uses science and body Lord’s glory for Chippy’s Jack mechanics to overcome stronger and larger opponents. Ex-Chippy schoolboy Practitioners learn to react to touch so that after a few and Town Sports Award months of training, they can literally defend themselves with winner, Jack Taylor hit their eyes closed. The traditional techniques are adapted so cricket glory in that they work on the street in modern society. September when he Wing Chun isn’t fancy to look at, doesn’t contain any high was made man-of-the- kicks and doesn’t need the practitioner to be particularly fit. match after helping It is too technical to teach children under the age of 14 and Gloucestershire beat contains elements that would be too dangerous for them to Surrey by six runs in learn anyway. Individuals learn at their own rate and not to a thrilling Royal London One-Day Cup Final at Lord’s. The 24- any prescribed weekly formula. We don’t use belts to mark year-old, from Great & Little Tew, struck 35 off 26 balls, progress (although some Wing Chun schools do) and including hitting two sixes off successive balls from seamer Tom Curren, to help them reach 220. Surrey appeared to be cruising to victory at 143-2, but then Taylor dismissed both Kumar Sangakarra (60) and Rory Burns (56). He later trapped K J Millard Ltd Curran lbw to finish with 3-43. Jack then caught Gareth Batty on the boundary as Surrey were all out for 204 with three balls to spare. Great Tew is Jack’s home club and he now Skip hopes to play for England. He was in the England Under-18’s squad that visited Malaysia. He made his first class debut for with Gloucestershire in 2010 at only 18. Taylor's younger brother, Matthew is also a professional player and has also played List us A games for Gloucestershire. Any more budding Freddie for a Flintoffs up at Top School? Fast, Friendly Efficient Cricket Club Service! Well done to all at the Club but 2015 trophies go to... CNDCC Young Player of the Year: Max Green All Sizes of Skips delivered CNDCC Most Improved Player of the Year: Matthew where you want, when you want. Molyneux Clubman of the Year: Mick Widdows Environmentally friendly, family run business Most Ducks: Richard Ferley committed to recycling. Loo Seat Award: TBC Established 30 years. 1st XI Batsman of the Year: Dave Bassett Competitive prices. Bowler of the Year: Jim McGeown Trust us to take care of your rubbish Captain’s Player of the Year: Adam Wallington 2nd XI Phone us now on Batsman of the Year: Michael Tompkins Bowler of the Year: Danny Molyneux 01608 641361 Captain’s Player of the Year: Rhys Warner-Carter Andrew Phillips Tebb

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Chipping Norton Town Swifts leagues so an 8-1 loss to Chesterton on the opening day appears to have been an anomaly, as the team have shown real The Swifts are now well into the 2015/16 season, and with signs of results turning in their favour. over a month’s worth of fixtures played, all the teams have had something to shout about! It has been a strange start to the season for the Under 14s , who have seemed to have a different starting 11 every week The Under 7s have enjoyed a super start to life as Swifts, with the team proving to be a solid outfit so far and looking to build on looking to get some fantastic results. The team have a good number of players in to players and hope to improve even further, through training keep themselves and the possibility of more new players during the season. competing in the The Under 8s go from strength to strength and are now fully league. However, established in the league. However they are still looking for it seems the one or two new players core of the to really push the team squad they have on, if interested (School has the potential Year 3), please contact Swifts tackle the new season ~ Left: The U12s to be very, very Martyn on 07775 & Above: the U15s strong, with 696837. them going 1-0 ahead in a narrow 3-1 loss in the cup, to Swifts Under 11s , after Launton who are part of the ‘A’ League. a very good pre-season, Life back in the ‘A’ league has started brilliantly for the Under have started their 15s , an opening day 1-1 Draw away in Eynsham proved to be league campaign in a a good point as they backed it up with a superb 5-1 win in a similar fashion, with 2 local ‘derby’ with Hook Norton. If this wasn’t enough to wins and a narrow loss, and scoring 11 goals in their opening prove they belong in the top division, the team then went and three fixtures. The team welcomed two good additions to the knocked out last season’s champions Clanfield in the cup on squad at the end of September, and appear to be in a really penalties, after a thrilling 5-5 draw. good position to complete another successful season. CNTSFC are always welcoming new player at all age groups, The Under 12s have begun their league campaign reasonably particularly youngsters at Under 8 and Under 14. Please visit well, some much-improved performances competing with www.chippyswifts.co.uk for more information: contacts, teams at the top end of the division, and even in higher training times, fixture details and weekly match reports. Luke Newman

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New Head Boy & Girl: We are delighted to announce that Chipping Norton School Alice Abrey and Jack Year 5 Able Gifted and Talented Summer School: At Williams-Sharkey have the start of the been appointed Head summer holidays 29 Girl and Head Boy. Megan Year 5 students from Humphreys and Lewis our partnership Bletchly will ably assist primary schools were them as Deputy Head invited to take part in Girl and Deputy Head our annual able, gifted Boy. We are confident and talented summer that all four students will carry out their roles with great school run by the success. Science Department. The theme of this Student Council: The newly elected Student Councillors year’s summer school recently held their first meeting during which the new head was ‘Science and the boy and head girl and deputy head girl and head boy and all Media’. At the time, four of our house captains were introduced. Once everyone two major space events were featuring prominently in the media (the landing of the Philae probe on comet 67P and the Plutonic fly-by) and as such it was decided to focus on scientific advances related to space. On day one the pupils learnt about rockets, designed their own rockets and had a competition to see whose rocket would fly for the longest time. Day two involved a trip to the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford where the students had a go at making their own spectroscopes. Finally on day three the students, working in teams, ran their own newspaper companies.. The day was organised so that the arrived and settled down, the head girl, Alice Abrey gave a teams had to use real time press releases to make a saleable brief description of the three key roles in Student Council and interesting newspaper. The aim here was to link Science and the Council then elected a new Treasurer, Secretary and and the media and give the students a feel of what it would PR Officer. It was great to see many of the new Year 7 be like to work for a newspaper students eagerly put themselves forward for the three different roles. The Council is looking forward to a great year School Sports Awards: We were delighted that Oxford ahead. U11 Football Festival: Twenty teams from our ten partnership schools arrived on a windy, but thankfully dry, afternoon to take part in this very popular and competitive festival.

United midfielder and ex-student Sam Humphreys agreed to present our annual Sports Awards this year. He attended the evening to present the trophies to the students as a reward for their hard work and dedication to sport over the last Ten teams of boys and ten teams of girls took part in school year. Sam said ‘It’s great to come back to celebrate the interschool tournaments supported by parents and teachers, success and present trophies to the students and I have really and organised by Mrs Phillips and her PE colleagues. Chipping enjoyed the evening. It’s strange to think that just a few years Norton Year 12 Sports Leader students led the Festival and ago I was sitting in the audience hoping that my name was had key roles refereeing, coaching and acting as officials. They going to be called out to win an award’. worked very hard and as this is the first Festival of the new school year every pupil did their absolute best. Tournament Winners: Chipping Norton School Small Schools: Enstone (this is a combined girls and boys Sixth Form Open Evening tournament) Big Schools: Charlbury Girls and Kingham Boys Thursday 19 November Well done to all the students who took part in this Festival; 6-8pm your hard work and dedication is wonderful. You are all a credit to your schools.

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we got to handle some artefacts and try on some replicas of St Mary’s Primary clothes from the war. We did many other activities but my Open Morning: favourite was the air raid shelter. First it went dark, and then This year’s Open noises of planes and bombs started! It was incredibly realistic. Morning began with It was a brilliant school trip! the unveiling of our new school mosaic The long awaited unveiling! St Mary's Primary School (pictured right). Existing and prospective parents were then given a tour by our Year 6 school ambassadors, who were praised for their informative and friendly approach. Visitors were able to see us in action and join in lessons. The hall was a showcase of work and information stalls reflected the range of provision available. If any readers missed the Open Day and would like to know more about St Mary’s, please contact the school where the headteacher would be happy to give you a tour of the site.

Harvest Festival: Mrs Eaglestone reports: On 1 October, all proudly unveiled a new mosaic to welcome visitors to their the children from Years 1-6 visited St Mary’s Church for our school. All 250 pupils cheered as the curtain fell, to present a Harvest Festival. In my role as RE co-ordinator, I was delighted design that many of them had contributed to when they submitted drawings at the beginning of the project. The school emblem is reflected in the two children holding hands beneath the welcome sign. At the top of the hill in the background is the Victorian building, which forms part of the school. Central to the design is St Mary's Church, and Bliss Mill is also represented as an important landmark of the town. The tiles were laid by hundreds of helpers – all pupils at the school, Town Councillors, teachers, dinner ladies, cleaners, parents, Governors and friends. The unveiling was performed by James Kennedy, St Mary's Vicar, and Richard Benfield, Deputy Mayor of Chipping Norton. Also pictured are John Frater, who raised the money for the mosaic by completing a marathon, Head Teacher Mrs Stallwood-Barnes and Joan to be organising this festival and following the usual traditions. Thomson and Gill Bray, who co-ordinated the project. I was overwhelmed by the amount of fruit, vegetable and tin donations brought in by the children and their families. All Panto part: Victoria Kennedy reports: I was year groups had been learning songs or poems to perform in The Theatre Pantomime last year, and and they were fantastic. Well done to all! Faith said, ‘I really enjoyed every second so I was keen to enjoyed the Harvest Festival. Year 3/4 sang Harvest Rock and audition this year. We started the auditions Roll and when it was time to sing we were nervous but we by introducing ourselves to each other. Our managed to sing the whole song through.’ Johnny added, ‘I first activity was acting (role play). Next liked learning more about Harvest and saying thank you to was singing and we ended with a short God for all the food we have at Harvest time.’ dance to Naughty from Matilda . I would recommend auditioning even if you don’t Being Evacuated… Lily Edwards & Victoria Kennedy report: get in. I’m very pleased to say that I did! On 22 Sept- ember, St Friends of St Mary’s Primary School Mary’s 5/6 classes went to Winch- Christmas Bazaar combe station th and pretended Friday 4 December to be 3-6.30pm evacuees in in the School Hall 1941. Farmer Wells (our Lots of Christmas Fun tour guide) whisked us away to our carriages the on the chocolate tombola, art & craft stalls, 1940’s steam train, where we had the chance to talk to an storytelling, Santa’s Grotto evacuee from WW2; she told us she was ten when she saw Refreshments: cakes and mulled wine her first banana! Next was finding out about life in WW2 –

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PTA Family Disco & Barbecue: This was a great success. Holy Trinity Primary The PTA raised just under £1000, and great fun was had by all. New School Year: Children and staff have settled very We are very grateful for all the hard work the PTA puts into quickly into the new school year and it has been a great these events and thank them for their continued support. pleasure to show prospective parents around the school for Red, White and Blue Day : The children wore a fantastic September 2016 intake. If you haven’t already seen the school, and would like to, please phone either Helen or Cathy on 643487, who can arrange an appointment. On 25 September, we hosted our annual Macmillan Coffee Morning and Cake Sale – a huge success raising over £224. The Coffee Morning was also an excellent opportunity for parents to meet the Leadership Team and to share their vision for the school. Steam Museum Trip: On 28 September, the year six class went to the Steam Museum in Swindon. They dressed up as evacuees and had many first-hand array of red, white and blue on 9 October to raise funds for experiences of the RAF Benevolent Fund. This fundraiser was organised by what life was like our School Council, who counted and banked £156. Thank during World War you for your generosity. Two. They went National Poetry Day: We on a steam train, celebrated the Day this year with Poetry Workshops in each class. The children spent time in an air-raid shared favourite poems with shelter, hearing frightening classmates and then created sounds of the sirens and poems of their own, based planes up above. Katie said, ‘I around their class topic. Year felt nervous and anxious 2 children are learning about when the lights went out, I Traditional Tales and worked can't imagine having to spend together to produce a very the whole night in such a descriptive poem about small space.’ The children dragons. Year 1 are learning about ‘Space’ with a Starry theme also enjoyed learning about family life during the war and how for their poems. The day ended with a ‘Poetry Extravaganza’ everybody 'did their bit' to help the war effort. Jasmina said, ‘I Assembly, with children sharing their day’s work. loved inspecting all the exciting artefacts from the war that had actually been used!’ The museum staff commented on the Bellboating: Seventeen children's exemplary behaviour – well done Year 6! Year 5 children and siblings enjoyed a day splashing about Reading Phonics Workshop: Parents of children in on the canal at Banbury Foundation Stage and Year 1 were invited to an after-school Canal Day. The sun shone as meeting with the Literacy Subject Leader about children the children, in two teams, learning to read. Parents and carers heard about reading paddled up the canal and strategies children are encouraged to use in school, and back to the Banbury Lock. learned useful tips about supporting children at home. There was laughter, wet Meanwhile the children enjoyed playing in the crèche! clothes and most importantly, team work! Well Christmas Shopping Fayre done to all the children, and Holy Trinity School thanks to the families for supporting the event. th Friday 27 November 6.30-9.30pm Harvest Festival: The whole school contributed to Harvest £3 entrance fee Festival Mass in Church on 13 October. Thank you to our Mince Pie, Mulled Wine & Shopping Bag on arrival parents and children for their donations to the North Oxfordshire Community Food Bank. They have been Unique stalls including Jewellery, Handmade gratefully received. Fudge, Home wares, Homemade produce, Sweets, Soft Toys & more ~ Raffle on the night Ashmolean Museum: As part of studies on Ancient Greece, Year 5 children visited the Museum in Oxford with a Children welcome ~ free DVD & entry wonderful day looking at Greek artefacts and imagining what Holy Trinity PTA is a registered charity no 1145091 life would have been like in Ancient Greece.

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Kingham Primary Middle Barton Primary Fantastic Football Festivities ... and something for the A warm welcome to our trophy cabinet! A group of Year 5s and 6s took part in the U11 new Chair of Chipping Norton Partnership Football tournament. After four Governors, Mrs Balfe, intense and competitive games, with some super goals, the who joins us at a very girls came second out of five and the boys came first! Well exciting time. We done to everyone who took part, showing real spirit in their currently have 124 competitiveness, sportsmanship and enthusiasm. pupils on roll. Our wonderful school is West Oxfordshireshire Cross Country event: The thriving! standard was high but the girls ‘under 9s’ are through to the We have all been finals and our other teams just narrowly missed out. Joe very busy this term Zamir came first and Tom Pennell came third! focusing on our learning Y5/6 trip to and having a growth Hampton Court: mindset. We are all very Despite the early keen to challenge start, our trip to ourselves and do our Hampton Court best. Our Year 6 children have been writing applications and allowed no time for preparing presentations to put themselves forward to resting, or snoozing! become part of Middle Barton's Pupil Leadership Team. With Our day was jam the help of Mr Duffy from Chipping Norton Secondary packed; filled with a School we will soon elect a new head girl and boy who will ‘Questioning the help lead the new team. Past’ workshop; We held a Maths In Art day whereby each class explored which developed our the mathematics within an artist's work or theme and we skills of historical produced a colourful whole school masterpiece which is now enquiry, whilst hung in our hall. All of the children produced fantastic artwork providing an honest to be proud of. insight into who the ‘real’ Henry VIII was. We were quite We celebrated Harvest with two special assemblies. We literally exhausted with fascinating facts and Tudor tales! entertained both parents and guests from our village with our Harvest songs, poems and art work. We enjoyed serving Young Writers: Children from year 5 and 6 were absolutely delighted to see their names in the newly published copy of Once Upon A Time . They wrote a story … but only using 100 words and it had to have a beginning, middle and an end – no mean feat! Chadlington Primary Trio to Westminster: Our Key Stage 2 pupils had the most wonderful day recently when they were given a tour of Westminster Abbey exploring the subject of Church vs State. This was followed by an inspiring tour of the Houses of Parliament where everyone got the chance to stand where David Cameron stands at the despatch box. Everyone was completely amazed by the amount of history and tradition we experienced in just a few hours! Term Topic: Our new whole school term topic is 'We are Philosophers' as we explore the ideas of the great thinkers in a way that is accessible for all. Key Stage 2 pupils will be looking at some of the numerous people in history that they encountered during their Westminster day. Outdoors at our school: Our raised beds at the front of the school are looking wonderful – full of Autumnal colour, ripening fruits and beautifully painted stones by the Pixies and Elves. Each school year will be choosing and planting bulbs ready for spring in their own raised bed. Our outdoor classroom has been used continuously during a welcome spell of bright Autumn weather. We have designed trees around the outside and created a huge clock inside for our younger students to explore the concept of time. We continue to fill the space with special outdoor Maths and Science resources.

32 SCHOOL NEWS afternoon tea to our guests, some of which we had made ourselves – the carrot and courgette bread was delicious! Kingham Hill School It’s been a busy and productive Acorns Primary term at Kingham Our Spanish day celebrated Hill School so far, all the learning that has following on from taken place over the first a successful year of learning Spanish in summer of A level Key Stage 2. and GCSE results. We began with an At GCSE, the assembly where Mrs Stone total number of talked about her love of pupils achieving Cassie the rabbit gets top marks from new Spain and Spanish culture, the highest marks, arrivals at Kingham Hill School for particularly in and around A*-A, has risen producing three cuddly baby bunnies Barcelona. The final part of to a new school record, well above the national average and the assembly showed a bucking the general trend, with the great majority of pupils number of celebrations awarded at least one A*-A. At A level all the students secured where the ‘gigantes and their preferred university places. cabezudos’ (giants and big- Sporting successes were also recognised in the school’s heads) take centre stage. These rather gruesome figures recent Sports Awards evening, with Olympian, World and tower above the crowds and are processed through the European Championship medallist Christian Malcolm making streets, carried by a person within their frame. the presentations. It was a hugely inspiring night for the pupils, In classes the children spent the day learning Spanish their families and all the staff involved. Our congratulations go cooking, art in the style of Miro and Gaudi, Zumba dancing to all the nominees and winners. and creating their own giants (from cardboard boxes), all for The recently arrived students have settled well into an Acorns Fiesta Mayor to be celebrated at the end of the day. school life, with lots of new friendships being made and many After a Spanish lunch provided by Mrs Surman, our cook, feeling as if ‘they have been here forever’. There was another everyone came together on the playground! The children set of new arrivals this term, with the school rabbit, Cassie tasted all the delicious food, which was all from authentic delivering three little bunnies just in time for the new school Spanish recipes, and then processed their giants in the year. They are getting a lot of love and attention from all the glorious sunshine. It was a fabulous day and the children of new pupils here at Kingham Hill School. Acorns learned that the Spanish culture can be fascinating, strange, frightening and amazing. Sibford School Rosie races to triathlon victory: Sibford School pupil Rosie Weston was the first British competitor in her category to cross the finish line in the 2015 ITU Age Group Sprint World Championships which took place in Chicago in September. The 17-year-old, who was competing in the women’s 16-19 grouping, completed the 750m swim, 20km bike ride and 5km run in 1 hour, 12 minutes and 41 seconds. The triumph placed her 12th in her age group and 61st overall. Rosie said: ‘The race was the toughest thing I’ve ever done! My swim went well but it was a tough bike course with a strong head wind. My run was extremely hard … it was 30 degrees and seeing as I’ve only ever trained in England I wasn’t used to racing in such heat. I was extremely happy to be the first Brit home. The atmosphere was amazing and I enjoyed every minute of it … even if it was painful! ‘ Sibford School will be holding a Whole School Open Morning on Friday 13 November. For further information visit the website (www.sibfordschool.co.uk) or call admissions officer, Elspeth Dyer, on 01295 781203.

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A salute to Gunner Gilbert him alone to carry on earning an honest living. If he is Regarding last month’s article written by the British Legion forced out by bureaucracy he will be sadly missed so do add about Gunner Leslie Gilbert, I would like to write a personal your name to his ever growing petition of support. note. His name is on Column 36 at the Kranji War Cemetery. Cicely Maunder Gunner Christopher Leslie Gilbert 1094204 Horsefair and HGV dangers 344/135 Field Regt. RA. C Troop I would like to add my voice to those demanding a restriction st Hertfordshire Yeomanry died 21 Sept 1944 on HGV traffic through Horsefair. My husband is disabled with He was our Parkinson’s Disease. He is fortunately not yet wheelchair mother’s first bound but that makes this stretch of very narrow pavement husband born particularly dangerous – first, because any fall would take him 4 April 1916 at into the path of juggernauts, and second, the pavement is too Barton on the narrow to walk two abreast thereby allowing someone to Heath. He met support him as he walks. He has had four falls in the last three our mother, a weeks (one of which required attendance by paramedics) and Chippy girl, if any one of those had occurred as he was making his way Beryl May along the narrow Horsefair pavement then he would likely Shepard (born have been killed or seriously injured. The County Council 17 May 1920); must take action, how many more people are going to suffer they started death or injury before this becomes a priority? dating around Leslie & Beryl on their wedding day Name and address supplied 1936 and got married at St Mary’s in 1939. They lived over the Worcester HGV’s – ban diesel! Road. After the war our mother was a 25-year old war widow The article in the Sunday Times (13 Sept), ‘urban areas set to with two children: Valerie (now Findlay) and David (deceased). ban diesel’ may show a good way forward. At least the Our father Tony Clarke was an Irish immigrant who arrived in Councils would not be accused of isolated anti-HGV bias as Chippy in 1947. He and my mother met at Salford Fete and this is a national issue. The proposed bans seem apolitical and married in 1949. He adopted Valerie and David and had three address the fundamental issue that diesel appears to pose a sons – Kevin, Martin and Anthony, who then had children, health issue. Surely Chippy could adopt such a policy as a grandchildren and great grandchildren. All alive today because strategic Council Policy and then start work on the tactical Leslie Gilbert died. We will always be grateful to him with issues to achieve firstly a ban on HGVs over 7.5 tonnes, words taken from the Kohima Epitaph: For our ‘Tomorrows’ followed by all lorries and ultimately all diesel engines. I he really did give his ‘Today’. In later years Mum had Diabetes suspect such a policy would align with the long term national which took her eyesight. She died in 1978. She still had two of political and environmental view that diesel powered engines the love letters he wrote to her. His last one was buried with should no longer be motive power on our roads. her. The other we still have – fragile and yellowing, dated Pete Godfrey 8.8.41 – he speaks of, ‘hoping the war will end soon’ so he can ‘come home for kisses and cuddles’ which we know did not Forgotten Penhurst pillars happen. The saddest irony is that after years of the daily Have you seen the pillars beatings that he and fellow captives received at the hands of along the lane to The their Japanese captors, he was killed by the Allies, sealed in the Mount at the side of hold of a ship. He must have known at that moment he was Penhurst Gardens? I never coming home. recently removed all the Kevin Clarke on behalf of the Clarke Family ivy from them as I'd never seen them before and Support for the ‘Flower Man’ have lived here for 36 A precedent was set in the early 1950s for the market pitch years. Does anyone now occupied by Steve Slade 'the flower man' (see last remember them in use? month’s News) when Mr and Mrs Stonebridge towed their Rosemary Franklin old green caravan with a tractor from their market garden in the Banbury Road to the market place. This took up quite A lot more than knickerless a space including the area in front of the caravan. Of course We learned that Chippy had become ‘knickerless’ as Beales at that time the Town was run by the Borough Council and no longer sold ladies underwear. Now, I find that this is not not the Jobsworths in Witney! This was long before the the only thing we cannot obtain any longer. Recently, my existing weekly market was re-instated. No-one objects to husband decided that his ‘scruffy’ trousers were too scruffy the kebab van with its own electricity supply on the car even for him to use, so he wanted to downgrade some of his park, often there from 4.20 in the afternoon until 2am tidy ones and replace them with new. No problem says I, every day of the week. Steve adds colour and character to we’ve always obtained new trousers for you at Beales. What the Town and a lot of places would be far less beautiful did I find? I could obtain any number of different varieties of without his flowers, including the Church. He is also very denim jeans in greater or lesser state of disrepair, one generous to local charities supporting our many good hundred versions of coats, anoraks or gilets, but trousers causes with raffle prizes and gifts. Steve pays for his Street nowhere. I’m talking about real trousers, not denim. There Trader’s Licence so let's hope WODC see sense and leave must be many, probably older, gents who need trousers, but

34 LETTERS not denim. Eventually I found some online, ordered and Search for fostered son received them within three days. But, what do you do if you Can anyone remember a family who lived in the Chipping do not use the internet? Or have no car, and need to make a Norton area in the 1960s/70s? They had lots of children, some difficult excursion to Banbury, Witney or Oxford? of their own, some adopted and some fostered. Some of the I note that Chippy is trying to secure an award for children were white, some black and some possibly Chinese. It Britain’s best High Street. I am sorry, but it won’t get my vote. is believed the family moved to the West Country in the 1970s. Come on local retailers, please try to assess your local Any information welcomed. Send to Yvonne King, 10 Elmside, clientele and supply the goods they require. Fernham, Faringdon, Oxford, SN7 7PA. Telephone 01367 820472. Peta Simmons Yvonne King Family search – Evelyn Sanders (The News telephoned Yvonne – she told the News that as a I am researching my family history and wonder if readers single mother in 1965 she gave away her baby to be fostered in may be able to help me. I am following my grandmother’s this area. She has been searching for her long lost son. Readers are welcome to pass Yvonne’s contact details to anyone who might help .) Thanks to a passing doctor My thanks to a Dr Malcolm Brown who was able to help out in an emergency on Friday 24 September. Whilst on the return leg of a cycle ride that afternoon, shortly before I arrived back in town, I noticed a man who had been taken ill and was sitting on the footpath along the Churchill Road. After phoning for an ambulance I was not in a position to stay with him as I was on my way to collect my children from school though his condition appeared to be deteriorating rapidly. Fortunately for the patient (David Longhurst), Dr Brown happened across us whilst out running and was able to stay with him; shortly afterwards we saw that the Fire Service emergency responder crew and later the ambulance were on line – her name was Evelyn Mary Sanders – and would be their way. I trust Mr Longhurst made a good recovery. grateful for any information relating to her or her brothers Deborah Webb and sisters. The family were farmers and lived in Kiddington and the surrounding area. I am also trying to identify the The News team welcomes letters (names supplied please) but house in this photo I think it may have been the family reserves the right to cut depending on space available. The home. I can be contacted on 01608 641531. Thank you. opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the Team. 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News from the Lawrence Home Nursing Team Christmas cards on sale this year Move it! at Soho Farmhouse The Lawrence Home Nursing Come to 'Move It' – a day Team Christmas Cards are all of fitness, health and well- on sale in packs of eight and being at exclusive available from: Harpers, Jaffé & Members’ Club, Soho Neale and The Midcounties Farmhouse, Great Tew. Co-operative, Chipping From yoga and pilates to Norton; Quality Foods zumba and circuits, you’ll enjoy a day of fantastic 45- minute fitness sessions, all in the stunning location of Soho Farmhouse. Your day includes expert Two of this year’s designs ~ instruction, refreshments Above: Geese by Ronny Loxton and lunch. If you feel like Left: Christmas Eve Epwell a break from physical Church by Josephine Trotter activity we’ve planned a Chadlington; The Dental series of 15-minute Practice, Charlbury and mindfulness sessions Charlbury Surgery; Bloxham Surgery; Kingham Stores; during the lunch break. Woodstock Bookshop; and Knight Frank, Stow-on-the-Wold, It’s a great chance to Photograhy by www.jennyastonphotography.co.uk sponsors of the card design ‘Christmas Eve Epwell Church’ by sample some activities you’ve been meaning to try like ballet Josephine Trotter pictured in last month’s News . Our cards core or theatre jazz. We’ve even laid on some tennis coaching will also be on sale on Saturday 7 November at Charlbury if you need to brush up your tennis skills. Come and get fit, Memorial Hall, in Churchill Village Hall on Saturday 14 have fun, and raise money for the Lawrence Home Nursing November and St Kenelm’s Church, Enstone, on Saturday 28 Team. Early bird discounted rate £55 per person (zero rated) November. Our thanks to the local artists who kindly including all instruction, refreshments and lunch if booked and donated images: Ronny Loxton, Kati Eidenbenz, Josephine paid for before Friday 19 November. From 20 November the Trotter, Anuk Naumann and Diana White. Please visit our standard rate of £70 per person (zero rated) applies. For website: www.lawrencehomenursing.org to read more about more details and to confirm your place visit: the artists and see this year’s Christmas Cards. www.lawrencehomenursing.org or call Verity 684475. Verity Fifer DIARY

November (News out on Monday 26 October ) 16 th CN Amateur Astronomy Group 7.30 Methodist Hall - 1st Ramblers Meet 1.30pm New St Car Park - details p25 see p21 Rotary GRAND FIREWORKS DISPLAY 6.30 King West Oxon WI 7.30 St Mary’s Parish rooms see p26 Stone Farm, Little Rollright OX7 5QB 18 th Horticultural Assoc 7.30 Methodist Hall - see p24 3rd Railway Club 7.30 Lwr Town Hall see p21 This Changes Everything film 7.45 Town Hall see p9 4th U3A 2.30pm Methodist Hall Martin Way - The Golden 19 th Chadlington Flower Club Open Evening - Christmas Age of Coaching with Nadia 7.30 Town Hall details p23 Quaker Meeting 7.30 Lower Town Hall details p10 Over Norton WI 7.45 ON Village Hall see p25 North Oxon Organic Gardeners - 7.30 St Mary’s Parish 20 th William Smith, the Geologist talk in Churchill see p13 Rooms - details p26 21st Chipping Norton Farmers’ Market 8.30-1.30 6th Nortonians Quiz & Supper details p13 24 th Lights Up Arts & Memory Club as 10 November 8th Remembrance Day Parade & Services details p19 28 th Adderbury Xmas Market 11am-4pm see p9 9th History Society 7.30 Methodist Hall - see p21 Lions’ Reindeer Race Night 7pm Crown & Cushion Chippy Folk Club 7.30pm at The Blue Boar. play, sing, - see advert p21 recite or just listen. Details 01608 676819 29 th Town Christmas Trees Go Up details p8 10 th Lights Up Arts & Memory Club 10.30am-12.30pm at (News out on Monday 30 November ) Highlands details 07717 374484 December st North Oxfordshire Health Forum 7.30 Chipping 1 Railway Club 7.30 Lwr Town Hall see p21 nd Norton School see p2 2 U3A 2.30pm Methodist Hall Peter Nuttall - My Bucket 11 th Two Minutes’ Silence at The War Memorial see p19 List: Sailing the Atlantic Methodist Coffee Morning 9.30-11.30 for Overseas North Oxon Organic Gardeners - 7.30 see p26 Missions 3rd Hospital Action Group Meeting details p2 CNWI 2.15pm Lower Town Hall see p22 3-6 Methodist Christmas Tree Festival details p5 12 th Amnesty 7.30 Lower Town Hall details p25 4th Christmas Shopping Evening see p7 14 th Craft Fayre 10am-2pm Enstone Village Hall - see p9 5th Town Dance see advert p3 and article p7 for details Still Alice (12A) in Churchill - 7.30 details p11 CN Choral Society Messiah details p17

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